Santa Specials have finished for the day and Renishaw has its fire dropped.

A close lightning strike flashes above the Union Pacific depot in Altoona, Wisconsin as yard power hunkers down in the yard waiting out the thunderstorm's heavy rains and wind bursts.

99 7239 is undergoing some maintenance work in the Wernigerode Westerntor shops.

Stormy Night at the Museum Roundhouse! Duke Power 0-4-0 #111, along with SOU 6900, N&W 620, and a few other historic rail figures fight a mean summer storm that drove everyone in attendance... (more)

DME train 487 waits in the hole at Cobden, MN, for opposition not yet out of Tracy while lighting and thunderstorms rage over southern Minnesota

Not very often you see lightning, stars, and the moon in one photo. As a storm rolls east over Regina, the skies begin to clear behind and the moon starts to take over the night sky. Stony Beach i... (more)

Lightning silhouettes empty centerbeam cars as the train rolls across Comanche Drive.

Tanfield railway are celebrating 40 years of operations this year and this weekend is their gala. A night shoot was arranged with floodlights and fireworks

Robert does some work on the 4501 in the Soule Shops. 1 down, 199 to go..

A small storm lights up the sky over the classic C&O signals as a few lightning bugs fly around.

Little Sparky – A BNSF MOW worker severs a rail on Main #1 at the Train Station in Fullerton California to make way for a 20 foot piece of panel track that will be laid in and bolted ... (more)

It's the first night of Train Festival 2011 in the Quad Cities as a pair of Amtrak heritage locomotives idle on a private varnish train from Chicago. Thunderstorms developed quickly this evening a... (more)

A Union Pacific MOW worker cuts a piece of stick rail just outside the Altoona yard so that the new welded rail can be spliced in for the night before work resumes again the next day.