Coal from the Rawhide Mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin battles the steep grade of Palmer Lake as this 17,000 ton train approaches "the sag" at Spruce, CO.

BNSF 9002 pulls 124 car Rawhide Mine, WY to Donnie (Headwaters Power Plant), TX coal train over the 7200' high Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake, CO during a late October snow storm.

The conductor of a southbound local freight checks for defects on a northbound hot shot on a cold Winter night.

Two SD70ACe's power a loaded coal train across the Powder River Basin as a severe thunderstorm rumbles to the west.

Thunder claps in the distance from a storm that just slammed Noxon with heavy rain while an eastbound “super train” rolls towards Missoula.

MRL 263 and company fly west with the short LAUBOZ on the drawbars while a severe storm in Eastern Montana builds in the distance.

A summer thunderstorm produces a rainbow that frames BNSF 7609 (ES44DC) as it meets the westbound Z Train on the Brush Sub in Roggen, Colorado.

During the afternoon’s downpours in the Chicagoland area, L CHI1051 25A winds it’s way through the Des Planes River valley while there are still fall colors on the trees. Bluebonnet SD40-2 175... (more)

Under a threatening sky,66079 catches the early morning sun approaching Keenes Crossing with a Margam to Round Oak working.

PTC enforcements are never good (from a crews perspective) but a glitch overspeed enforcement just around the corner bought us enough time for the sun to come out, revealing a rainbow above the DM... (more)

Punching the Core on the High Plains Chicago to Denver Z punched through the core of slow moving severe thunderstorms near Roggen from severe storms leaving heavy rain and hail over Cr... (more)

Light power to pull Lakehead pulls down the Hole Track while DMIR 408 and two sisters spot empties high above on Dock 6. The sun was out for a cumulative of 15 seconds in the few minutes I was on ... (more)

A Global 4 to City of Industries, CA, hot Z-train crosses over at Ethel around couple slow pokes as they work west on the Marceline Sub. A crazy April snow storm has coated everything, I cant even... (more)

Under a threatening sky, a Montana Rail Link ballast train approaches the loader at Spire Rock, Montana, on October 3, 2022. A pair of MRL’s EMD SD70ACes power the train that is running on a por... (more)

The westbound Willow Springs to San Bernardino Z-train has some room to roam now. The dispatcher has them and the UP G4 Z-train over to main # 2 here at Ethel to round up 2 slower trains before Ma... (more)