A BNSF westbound on the MRL crossing Skyline Trestle after a fresh snow the night before

This is one of my favorite rotary shots. That is C&TS veteran Earl Knob carefully watching the progress of OY. Soon he would be starring at us through the snow trying to figure out what these idio... (more)

When I traveled to California, it was to escape the dreadful Michigan winter. I never expected to encounter three feet of snow in Colorado and New Mexico on the way there. Both Amtrak P42DCs on th... (more)

Making a air test before heading to the main Waterloo yard. Tons of wet sticky snow

In a cruel April Fool's Day Joke... mother nature has dropped a fresh ten inches of snow across the area.

Yesterday's blizzard has cleared the area, leaving behind over a foot of fresh snow that was driven to massive drifts by 30MPH winds all day. Even today, the temperature didn't make it above zero... (more)

you can't tell from this photo, but the day before we had this rare southeastern blizzard, temps were in the 70's here in Salem, and a tornado touched down here, leaving over 100 trees across the ... (more)

James Hill's Great Northern mainline has withstood the tests of time and nature and today remains one of the vital arteries for moving freight traffic between the east and west. One thousand, sev... (more)

With the headlight from our train illuminating his work, my conductor is sweeping the switch at East Merritt so we can line it, and continue west to Seattle.

BNSF's rotary works slowly thru the man made snow drift near MP 51 on the Zap Line. Crews worked most of the day digging out the 2 drifts along the tracks at MP 51 and piling the snow on the track... (more)

CP 9638 leads another AC4400CW through a heavy snow fall in Wisconsin Dells, kicking up snow in it's wake and obscuring the train behind it. Only about 15 minutes before this photo there was no sn... (more)

The Wells Day Job is working west towards Jackson, MN today. Here the crew is picking up alittle snow as they near Winnebago. In a couple miles they will be stopping to setout 10 tanks for Cornplu... (more)

A crossing shot, don't normly get a drift right at the crossing.

Cleaning up the Drifts that blew in after the ditcher ran the week before. And no i was past the snow, by looking at the chunks from the last pass and not shooting by them you don't get hit.

Priority train, Bedford Park IL. to Tacoma WA., waits in the clear at Merritt as an eastbound vehicle train comes off the 2.2, and passes with dyno's whining.