Silhouetted by the morning sun, Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 93 pulls a short freight over Steptoe Creek fill near East Ely, Nevada on a cold February 8, 2004. NNRy operates these special photo train... (more)

Dawn is breaking as the California Zephyr kicks up the snow while running at track speed through Hudson, Colorado.

The Denver Rock Island Railroad's 1083 (SW1500) moves a cut of cars through their yard in Central Denver.

The snow is falling as BNSF ACe 9040 sits on a ready track at the site of the old Castle Rock Depot. The engine will help push a train over the Palmer Divide if needed.

Snow is falling on stormy-looking Book Cliffs in the background as Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” local rolls into brilliant sunshine as it passes through Banning, Utah, on February 5, 2... (more)

Ice Cold Hot Bottles. Norfolk Southern Corp 5809 (GP38-3, née-SOU 7080, GP50) leads "The Bottle Train" through CP Gibson on the Indiana Harbor Belt in Hammond, Indiana on Saturda... (more)

The California Zephyr #5 kicks up the snow as it passes through Pinecliffe, Colorado.

Burlington Northern SD9 No. 6100 rests overnight at Rochelle, Illinois, on February 17, 1996. The vintage locomotive was built by EMD In February 1954 as Great Northern No. 573, equipped without d... (more)

Amtrak engine #19 has just blasted through a four foot snow drift as it runs through Coal Creek Canyon on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

A T-Bird taconite shuttle makes it's way south on the CN Missabe Sub at Wolf, MN with loads for the United taconite plant at Forbes, MN.

Cutting through an icy dawn
It’s early morning on a cold January 30, 2005, as an eastbound Union Pacific coal train descends the grade of the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision mainline in free... (more)

BLOL 7591 and LTEX 3802 finish running around their train and make their way back south to Gibson City with loads beginning the journey back south heading south out of Cullom, seen here passing th... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Jordan Spreader is just out of the Waterloo city limits as they work north on the Oelwein Sub towards Oelwein. The drifts however were pretty minor for the middle of February u... (more)

I asked 338's crew what the drifts look like east of Waterloo after the last winter storm. They said around Beth there were some small ones. With bitterly cold weather, drifted in roads, and near... (more)

The 4-6-2 "Pacific" express train steamlocomotive 01 # 202 of the association "Pacific 01 202" in Lyss in on a test run through the gorge of the Areuse between Travers and Les Verrières. The trai... (more)