Mixed Service: Prairie City to Baker. Running since well before dawn, Sumpter Valley's handsome Mikado #19 leaves a frosty white plume as she hauls an express mixed train east out of Prairi... (more)

Looking right at home in the tall timber of the Powder River Valley, Eccles Lumber Heisler #3 plods slowly eastward on the Sumpter Valley Railway, with a short work extra. Although #3 was... (more)

We'll be needing the sanders..... Sumpter Valley Engineer Eric Wunz makes one last check of the sand supply on Mikado #19 as he prepares depart McEwen and head west toward Sumpter. A snow... (more)

Having just completed its daily trek to the summit of Glorieta Pass, Amtrak's Southwest Chief dashes through the snow as it makes its way past the E. Glorieta signals. Amtrak's original Veterans u... (more)

Amtrak Acela 2254 breaks the stoic silence as it rounds the curve into Westport as the sun sets after a healthy amount of snow courtesy of winter storm Jonas.

A Roger Puta Photograph

Colorado & Sothern operated this rotary snow plow from 1899 to 1965. As the rotary head spun around, snow was sucked inside a chute located behind the head and then it was directed out the side o... (more)

The absence of steam locomotive #7470 due to a rebuild did not stop the Mass Bay Railroad Enthusiasts from having their annual snow train. Instead of "Steam in the Snow" this year's trip was dubbe... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Christmas Eve
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy caboose (waycar in CB&Q parlance) No. 14602 glows in the gathering twilight of Christmas Eve 2007. The Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana, ha... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio E8(A) 1435 with an E8(B) on the C&O's Cincinnati to Detroit "The Cincinnatian" near Cincinnati, Ohio January 22, 1961 Photo from my slide collection, no photographer listed on s... (more)

After the season's first significant snowfall, the fluffy white stuff provided the perfect scenery for the Sunday run of the North Pole Express.

DRGW 5771 (F9) appears ready to roll off the Colorado Railroad Museum grounds with vintage freight cars in tow.

In extreme blizzard conditions, an eastbound BNSF stack train leaves the mountains of Glacier National Park behind as it fights a crosswind coming through Grizzly, Montana, on December 22, 2007.

Smell the paint! The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.