It's well after sunset the train will run all night working it's way to Marquette,IA and South to Savanna,IL and on to Chicago.

Norfolk Southern SD50 5440 busts through a pile of snow at a crossing in Carlock, Illinois on Thursday Feb 3, 2011 following the February blizzard that blanketed much of the midwest. The former Co... (more)

Boxing Day/The day after Christmas 29 years ago finds 5412, 5407, 5388, 5394 and 5375 in a snow storm climbing out of Minturn, on the way to Tennessee Pass, with #788 100-car coal from Cameo. The ... (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 at the Eddy ... (more)

The BNSF local out of La Crosse is toughing out the blizzard switching the sand plant in Maiden Rock, WI. A couple of MOW workers arrived early to clean snow out of the switches and stayed to help... (more)

Three GEs running elephant style bring train 290 around one of the curves between Eden Valley and Watkins. The snow is tapering off and clear skies are not far behind this eastbound.

With heavy snow continuing to fall, a single GE leads train 499 a few miles west of Regal.

Union Pacific MPRSS glides west out of Altoona yard, cutting through the falling snow on their way to Saint Paul, MN. I have a few photos from this position that just didn't have the look thi... (more)

A late afternoon trip up the mountain, started in overcast skies and calm winds, quickly brewed into a doozy of a snowstorm. By the time w had caught this EB grainer at the 2nd bridge at Browning... (more)

With four inches of Sierra Cement already on the ground, more snow continues to fall while a Westbound stack train prepares to emerge from the ten thousand foot Tunnel 41.

CP's snow plow 401015 makes its second pass through a cut just north of Arlington, Wisconsin, on the M&P Subdivision. The 10-mph line is prone to drifting and this winter the snow was bad enough t... (more)

About 1/2 track mile from the Soda Springs crossing, I am still trying to perfect this shot. Again a little dark, but the train was kicking it up quite nicely. It was a slow and disappointing Wint... (more)

Just before sunrise, we had to make the little light we had work. It was a wet snow, so we decided not to trek too far away from the car. But here the westbound MSTDVJ heads through the crossing w... (more)

You gotta love Colorado weather. Yesterday I was in shorts, and today the snow flies fast and furious!!