Over one hundred cars of Kentucky black diamonds move at a mere crawl as the two GE's up front and pusher on the rear give it all they've got get their train over the misty mountain at Chaska, Ten... (more)

Here in Maricopa County, Arizona we typically get Monsoon storms in the summer time when cold fronts mix with our extreme heat. Also, we tend to get dust storms (haboobs) which originate from the ... (more)

As the snow continues to fall on a cold February morning, BNSF 5971 leads an eastbound empty grain train past the Flagstaff, AZ train station on February 28th, 2018.

Bright orange BNSF engines emerge from the wall of snow falling at Yampai just short of the summit. Yampai usually does not see heavy snowfall like it did the night before, so my friend and I were... (more)

Looking like a Star Wars scene In February of 2006 the weather was no different from a typical Sierra Nevada Winter. In this scene the UP 604 pauses in Truckee, CA while the storm continu... (more)

Thunderstorms build in the background as Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief races through the intermediate Semaphore Signals by Colmor siding.

In a heavy rain, Amtrak No. 5, the San Francisco Zephyr, makes its way through the curves at Yuba Gab. Note that the track the train is on--which runs around the tunnel--is no longer there.

A high priority Z-train for Memphis, TN makes its way through the Coconino Forest in Flagstaff, Ariz. after a brief snow storm that dusted the mountain with a couple of inches of snow. Taken on th... (more)

The last wave of snow falls over the college town of Flagstaff, Arizona as CSX to BNSF interchanged stack train rumbles up the grade to the 7,335 foot high summit of the Arizona Divide along the B... (more)

After an afternoon of rain showers across northern Arizona, a rainbow has appeared along the eastern side of Flagstaff. With only a few minutes left of sunlight, the slow moving Belen, NM to Phoen... (more)

With a foot of fresh snow on the ground from an El Niño storm, a westbound high priority intermodal rolls through Maine during the blue hour.

Here in Colorado, the best conditions for winter photography are often found well into spring... like the last day of April, for instance! Down in Denver it was mostly coming down as rain, but abo... (more)

This past weekend Colorado got a doozie of a spring snowstorm. Denver only saw a few inches of accumulation due to melting, but just a few miles outside of town as the tracks enter the foothills n... (more)

The Coast Starlight, No. 14 , northbound in the fog along the Carpenteria Bluffs with ATSF Business Car No. 33, the Tamalpais, adding a touch of class.

The Amtrak Pennsylvanian streaks west past the signals at CP MO during the last moments of daylight in a heavy snow storm.