An October snow storm has hammered Colorado over night bringing over 8 - 12 inches of snow in most areas. Here, we see the daily Denver, CO to Laurel, MT Manifest train that is departing Longmont ... (more)

Danger Close! On the second day of the 2011 White Pass Rotary run, I stand with half a dozen other photographers atop a rocky bluff, overlooking a deep cut called Canadian Shed. Once the ... (more)

TRAINS Magazine 2011 Grand Prize Photo Contest Winner. The view of a falling snowflake. A heavy January snow fall blankets the area in snow while Union Pacific MSSPR makes a set out in Altoona,... (more)

The Union Pacific local job headed up the Chippewa Falls Sub a couple days after a blizzard dropped 21 inches of snow on the area. LLPX 2205 moves along as it busts through snow banks Chippewa Fal... (more)

Soo Line 4410 leads the local through a blizzard of snow as it heads down the yard track to the Wabasha, Minnesota yard office. Local residents try to keep up with the snowfall as the snowblow dur... (more)

A late evening train 912 powered by a pair of SD40's, 749 and 744 sift through fresh powder and a snow squall as they hurry east.

Snow Fleet - 1940s style! - In fact were it not for the "modern" #73 steam locomotive pushing this could be titled "1920s style." White Pass and Yukon Railway narrow gauge rotary plow #3 (... (more)

The lead spreder wide winging through the s curve between the Norden shed and the Soda Springs grade crossing.

GP38-2's working hard while the crew battles low visibility.

Clearing the switch for the balloon at Fulda. Not much fun!

Extreme snow fighting is BACK on The Hill! After a 13 year hiatus (not counting the March 2007 "training" run), Union Pacific was finally forced to bring out the SP Rotaries the last week of March... (more)

About an hour into its second trip over Donner finds the SPMW 209 cleaning up the leftovers of an Eastbound Spreader set up Main #1. This single Rotary set included the SPMW 8208 "snail" for elect... (more)

The Illinois Central Santa Train prepares to depart Chebanse in near blizzard conditions.

Union Pacific dispatched a rotary set today from Roseville, CA as the WRVTKF-25. They departed at 10am and made it to Colfax around noon. After waiting for a utility crew to remove some downed wir... (more)

Over a foot of snow has fallen in the last day and a half and it shows no signs of letting up. The railroad keeps rolling, though, as a SOO SD60M passes the signal and west siding switch in Broot... (more)