Winter has arrived! The season's first snow covers the whole world on a beautiful morning in the Cascades. The early Z is departing Scenic after meeting a westbound stack train; just a few... (more)

A downhill northbound mixed manifest takes the horseshoe curve atop Salt Creek trestle at Heather. This is the longest trestle on UP's Cascade Sub in Oregon spanning 515 feet. This is also part of... (more)

The Alvia Bilbao-Madrid passes Artomana station after a heavy snowfall.

An empty Dofasco ore train, running very late due to the weather, leaves Hamilton after unloading at Dofasco and heads before to a mine along the Ontario Northland as the ice from the previous nig... (more)

A thick fog and freezing temperatures have coated the landscape in a thin layer of ice.

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

Already running about 20 hours late out of Seattle some 100 miles away, the Builder finally makes it down the eastern slope of Stevens Pass. A daylight Amtrak during the winter is a rare find over... (more)

Passenger train descends on Childrens Railway right after the tunnels lower portal in fresh snow and bright sunhine.

Dc 4761 leads a 11 total Tranz Alpine towards Arthurs Pass on a crisp winter morning through the southern alps.

Big GE 7064, a former CSX beast, hauls an empty coal train through a tunnel of ice shrouded trees after an ice storm swept through the area a few days before.

Amtrak 253/204 and #14 Coast Starlight glide through fresh morning snow in the Cascade Mountains.

One of the engineers from SP7436 waves all clear for #14 Coast Starlight as it is overtaken in a Cascades Mountain crossing loop on a snowy morning on 1.5.88. SP7436 is accompanied by SP7523+unid... (more)

Empty iron ore train hauled by venerable DM3 1209 returns to Kiruna in Sweden's Arctic Circle after delivering a load of premium grade iron ore to the Norwegian port of Narvik. The temperature is... (more)