A two-unit SP helper heads downhill in fresh snow after helping a train to the summit of the Sierras.

A snow-covered ACS-64 leads Keystone Service Train 652 into Metropark on March 15, 2017.

On Christmas Eve morning, Crozier Canyon was hit with a heavy snow storm. Dropping an inch and a half within an hour, a CSX interchange stack train can be see cutting through the snowfall; and col... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train rumbles along the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana, on February 24, 2017.

Winters Last Gasp

Near the very end of March Southcentral Alaska got hit with its last good snow dump of the winter season. Nearly a foot fell in some places and the fresh afternoon... (more)

Springs is Avalanche season and there are plenty of slide zones on the Alaska RR such as this at MP 7.1 on the Whittier Branch. Just a few days earlier this slide was 30 feet across the RR. Thanks... (more)

This years winter was a bit more normal for Alaska although it was fairly rare to catch a train after a snowfall. I did on one such occasion manage to follow a train south after a recent snowfall ... (more)

This years winter was a bit more normal for Alaska although it was fairly rare to catch a train after a snowfall. I did on one such occasion manage to follow a train south after a recent snowfall ... (more)

A westbound MidTOWN Direct Train to Dover entering South Orange Train Station.

When I saw the call time of tonight's Seward Freight I thought I might get lucky and have the trains arrival at Potter along Cook Inlet might coincide the sunset. It was pretty close as ARR 4010 r... (more)

Alaska Railroad's northbound Anchorage to Fairbanks freight, 130N, is seen heading into Fairbanks, AK approaching University Avenue with a pair of headend SD70MACs, with another pair mid-train as ... (more)

The Alaska Railroad crew aboard train 125N is seen backloading the CN-bound barge at the Port of Whittier with GP40-2s 3012, 3006 and GP38-2 2004 doing the honors. The trio of flat car spacer/idl... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train passes Amtrak’s Empire Builder making its station stop at Essex, Montana, on December 24, 2007.

Amtrak 356 crosses over at the crest of Lake Hill with a southbound Hiawatha in December of 1994. A freight waits in the background while another is in the siding.

Amtrak's southbound Vermonter train #55 is heading for the Pan Am Southern connection at East Northfield, just a mile north of the Vermont/Massachusetts border in Vernon, Vermont on December 23.