A Chicago and North Western freight bound for Green Bay hurtles across 91st Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on a wet, snowy December 3, 1990.

High country blizzard
During a windy and frigid springtime snowstorm, a Rio Grande coal train approaches the Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado.

A heavy snow shower obscures the view of this eastbound intermodal train over Stevens Pass. This storm is the same one that dropped a foot of snow in 48 hours, seen here: Railroad: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Winton, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 4846
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 14, 2012

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, climbs through a snowy Crescent, Colorado, on March 19, 1998.

A snowy look at Railroading. Wet and sticky one can't read the number boards.

ATCS Mon and radio conversations indicated this Z train would meet the SPOEVE at Winton, so I knew I had two trains coming through shortly. The Snow has been falling pretty good for some time now ... (more)

BNSF 4955 passes a DPU on a grain train. The snow has picked up the past few days, with Skykomish receiving a good 12" in the last 48 hours.

The last winter for the Burney line was tough. The snow just kept getting deeper. This is April and the snow should be almost gone. The snow in this part of the world tends to have a high water ... (more)

An eastbound freight train has just crossed the Continental Divide as they come out of the of Moffat Tunnel at East Portal. Weather can get pretty tough this high up in elevation, as seen with the... (more)

No fluffy powder here....wet heavy late spring Sierra cement.

After the "Storm of the Century" (well, so far), Amtrak's Pere Marquette slams through a thick snowbank on an elevated curve en route to Chicago. For the video, click Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD NPCU
Location: Fennville, Michigan, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 90368
Train ID: P371
Photo Date: February 02, 2011

Let It Snow- If it's going to be grey, it might as well snow. The WSOR HOK tries to step between big puffy flakes at Brandon, on its daily trip to Oshkosh.

Yep Houston, we have a problem! L572 is stuck at MP 408 on the Omaha Sub, couple miles east of Yetter, IA. Big drifts and bad power cause this train to become stuck. Took contractors about 12 hour... (more)

Conductor Cook- Far away from punching tickets on Penn Central to Metro North commuter trains into Grand Central, Conductor Cook has been there and done that. 2 years before retirement, he braves ... (more)

Deep in the trenches, the battle rages. On Day 2 of their 4-day mission to clear the line, the White Pass Snow Team attacks the worst of the snow pack, in a deep cut called Canadian Shed, a... (more)