Due to CP's tragic derailment a few miles east of Field, BC on the Laggan Sub, CN took one single detour train from the CP at Kamloops and delivered it back to the CP at Clover Bar in Edmonton. F4... (more)

Even after Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific, for several years, locomotives for the West local out of Denver on the Moffat Tunnel route was a pair of Rio Grande GP30s. They ran west on... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on the bright and snowy morning of January 6, 1998.

On the first day of spring I can't help but reflect on a winter that, in the New York area at least, was somewhat underwhelming, in contrast to many parts of the USA that really got hammered.... p... (more)

The Pittsburg & Shawmut Brookville turn kicks up snow that blows across the cemetery in Timblin, Pennsylvania. Today it would be appropriate for a headstone to be on the roadbed.

No rush at all, Elveția is pulling the CFF winter special at 10mph. They organize some one-day services off-season to cope with the high demand: 4 trains with 30min intervals departed Viș... (more)

Ontario Northland Canadian National connection train from Englehart is southbound on the big curve at Cobalt.

The Pittsburg & Shawmut Brookville turn has finished switching at Ringgold, Pennsylvania, and is continuing toward Mahoning with a train of loads from the mina at Dora, which can be seen above the... (more)

CP AC4400CW 8528, CP SD40-2 6067, CP SD40-2 6062, CSXT AC4400CW 518, & CP ES44AC 8907 are on the 420-14 in the siding for CP's hotshot #101

On March 1, 1989, a quartet of Oakway Leasing EMD SD60s power a Burlington Northern grain train over Montana’s Marias Pass. Marching westbound through Marias in a lightly falling snow on this fr... (more)

Brand new CN ES44AC 3852 departs Jasper with a loaded grain train in tow.

The 'Bomb Cyclone' blizzard conditions that the crews had to cope with were incredible, with Denver actually recording a gust of 90 miles per hour. This was the same storm that blew a container t... (more)

The 'Bomb Cyclone' was a short but fierce storm, with horizontal winds coating just about everything in the UP's North Yard with a layer ice and snow, including this SD60.

A ground blizzard was blowing this day on the upper reaches of Union Pacific’s ascent of the Soldier Summit grade in Utah. Winds were very light at Helper Yard at the eastern base of the pass wh... (more)

UP 1967 leads the weekday local turn from Altoona to Menomonie, WI east under Jeffers Road bridge at the west end of Eau Claire after a day's work handling chores on the Twin Cities mainline. Heav... (more)