NNRy 40 climbs upgrade out of the one remaining tunnel on the line to Ruth, NV.

Heading for the Hills

The Alaska Railroad dispatched a "snow fleet" work extra consisting of two GP40-2s pushing Harsco/Jordan Spreader 9 south to Portage to begin open... (more)

Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington locomotive #9 and Monson RR #3 pose at Top of the Mountain siding during a charter run for the Mass Bay RRE.

Resuscitated once again from a retirement, Grand Canyon Railway No.29 shows off her heavily modified front end. Once a lowly iron ore consolidation, today, she's one of the many faces of a world ... (more)

Sometimes you just get lucky. The snow fleet as it is known on the Alaska Railroad consists of Jordan Spreaders pushed by Geeps. Called to head south to clear the line between Portage and Seward, ... (more)

CP's Kenmare Wayfreight battles the blizzard of 2016 near Carpio.

It’s nearing the end of the blue hour on December 3, 1990, when an eastbound Soo Line freight thunders through Brookfield, Wisconsin, in the middle of a snowstorm. Soon, greater darkness will en... (more)

Railroading out here isn't easy. January 2017 brought much needed snow to the Sierra Nevada Mountains along with a variety of challenges for the Union Pacific Snow Fighters. In the days before thi... (more)

WW&FRy no. 9 and Monson Railroad no. 3 being steamed up for weekend photo charter duty at the WW&FRy.

Cascade & Columbia River Railroad's train heads north along the Columbia River north of Entiat, WA behind California Northern (former CNW) GP15-1 no. 106 and a Rail America GP9 (former NYC). Crisp... (more)

In a scene that was set to reflect actual Monson railroad operations a single flatcar leads ahead of the locomotive. The Monson did not have ample runaround tracks so the railroad would often put ... (more)

Winter professionals prevail…… After a long day on the hill Union Pacific's spreaders come home to Truckee after having returned the flow of commerce to Union Pacific's Sierra Crossing. After ... (more)

Snow fighting across a continuous ridge…… When selling his crossing of the Sierra to Central Pacific's 'Big Four' Theodore Judah promoted the idea that his railroad would follow a continuous r... (more)

Recently restored locomotive 8408 sits in Marshallton Yard along with ex Erie Lackawanna caboose 149. 8408 is repainted in the Baltimore and Ohio she use to dawn many decades ago. 8408 was origina... (more)