Out of the storm
With the collapse and reconstruction of MRL’s Yellowstone River Bridge near Reed Point from June 24 to July 22, 2023, and the subsequent severing of a busy main line,... (more)

On the afternoon of July 6, 2023, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local hauls eleven cars downgrade out of Winston for the lime plant at Townsend, Montana. It’s raining, but I still shot the local ... (more)

Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5417 leads a westbound UP freight past milepost 822 as the train climbs Peru Hill between Green River and Peru, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 22, 2023.

Staying ahead of the storm
An eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight train drops downgrade at milepost 823 on Peru Hill, Wyoming, momentarily staying ahead of a storm approaching from... (more)

Storm light over East Hump
A set of hump power crests Union Pacific’s East Hump after finishing the sorting of another train at North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011. An early spring... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Helena local works upgrade at milepost 214 between Townsend and Winston, Montana, on the afternoon of June 27, 2023.

Street Storms: North Shore 2012 brings the Nittany & Bald Eagle local out of the interchange yard with NS in Tyrone, PA as it runs the streets in downtown Tyrone, as it tries to outpace the bloo... (more)

Dense fog and snow nearly hide the California Zephyr as it runs through Rocky, Colorado.

Mojave Rainbow A storm front rolls off the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Tehachapi Pass. Rain was no stranger to the desert in the Spring of 2023. The fast approaching storm is moving fas... (more)

Snowing at Bridge 57
BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3943 leads an eastbound unit oil train across the Clark Fork on Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek in a Montana snowstorm on February 6, 2021. Interes... (more)

Conpit Storms: As a nasty thunderstorm falls over Johnstown, PA in the distance, manifest train NS 39G heads west through Conpit out of the rain and toward Pittsburgh.

A heavy thunderstorm unleashes its fury upon this eastbound double stack train as it races east towards Roanoke.

A loaded Comanche train grinds up the 0.6% grade of Keenesburg. The vast open landscape of the Brush Sub is on full display here as late summer thunderstorms forms in the background.

On the afternoon of June 22, 2023, a storm advances eastward as a Union Pacific stack train quickly works westbound toward the top of Wyoming’s Peru Hill through the signals at milepost 823 on U... (more)

A massive wall cloud has filled the sky overhead, bringing wind and driving rain to Peru Hill, Wyoming, as another Union Pacific freight works westbound up the grade and into the rapidly advancing... (more)