Sometimes you just get lucky. The snow fleet as it is known on the Alaska Railroad consists of Jordan Spreaders pushed by Geeps. Called to head south to clear the line between Portage and Seward, ... (more)

CP's Kenmare Wayfreight battles the blizzard of 2016 near Carpio.

It’s nearing the end of the blue hour on December 3, 1990, when an eastbound Soo Line freight thunders through Brookfield, Wisconsin, in the middle of a snowstorm. Soon, greater darkness will en... (more)

Railroading out here isn't easy. January 2017 brought much needed snow to the Sierra Nevada Mountains along with a variety of challenges for the Union Pacific Snow Fighters. In the days before thi... (more)

WW&FRy no. 9 and Monson Railroad no. 3 being steamed up for weekend photo charter duty at the WW&FRy.

Cascade & Columbia River Railroad's train heads north along the Columbia River north of Entiat, WA behind California Northern (former CNW) GP15-1 no. 106 and a Rail America GP9 (former NYC). Crisp... (more)

In a scene that was set to reflect actual Monson railroad operations a single flatcar leads ahead of the locomotive. The Monson did not have ample runaround tracks so the railroad would often put ... (more)

Winter professionals prevail…… After a long day on the hill Union Pacific's spreaders come home to Truckee after having returned the flow of commerce to Union Pacific's Sierra Crossing. After ... (more)

Snow fighting across a continuous ridge…… When selling his crossing of the Sierra to Central Pacific's 'Big Four' Theodore Judah promoted the idea that his railroad would follow a continuous r... (more)

Recently restored locomotive 8408 sits in Marshallton Yard along with ex Erie Lackawanna caboose 149. 8408 is repainted in the Baltimore and Ohio she use to dawn many decades ago. 8408 was origina... (more)

Amtrak EMD NPCU No. 406 is wrapped for Amtrak’s new Winter Park Express passenger service to the ski resort and is used on the east end of the 8-car train. No. 406 sits in the siding at Fraser w... (more)

The Amtrak Ski Train is about to leave for the Fraser/Winter Park Station for Winter Park Resort, CO to return to Denver Union Station. An aerial view shows Amtrak NPCU 406 and three Superliners w... (more)

Winter storm Helena is blanketing the Whippany Railway Museum with a thick coating of snow. Texaco Fireless locomotive 7240 poses with a SOO Line refrigerator car and a M&E bobber caboose on a ph... (more)

Blizzard conditions have slowed but not stopped rail traffic on CN and CP in the Fraser Valley. Here a train is stopped adjacent to the operator's bay of the CP Mission City depot. The crew will p... (more)

Take the last train...... The all-day snowstorm is beginning to abate just a bit as the last of the WW&F's Christmas Trains charges past Jayne's Way en route to Alna Center. Ordinarily, t... (more)