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  1. Twilight on the Foss River Bridge

    Twilight on the Foss River Bridge

    The approaching roar of the GE's on the point of this EB stack train was quite a prelude to the light show captured while the train crossed the snbow covered Foss River bridge.
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    • bridge foss mountains river snow trees
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Editor's Favorite Photos
  2. Madison freight platform

    Madison freight platform

    Nickel Plate depot in Madison, Ohio
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    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Buildings and Structures
  3. Burrr Ridge

    Burrr Ridge

    A sunny 20' day with a harsh wind as a westbound Dash 9 leads the way out of Willow Springs down the Chilli Sub through Burr Ridge.
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    • 9-44cw atsf bnsf burr dash ridge snow
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Western United States
  4. Baretables in snow covered Cajon

    Baretables in snow covered Cajon

    BNSF 4095 leads a baretable around the curve on track 3 below Summit.
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    • Comments: 15
    • Category: Western United States
  5. Heading for Summit

    Heading for Summit

    BNSF 4383 comes around the curve from Silverwood as it heads eastward toward Summit.
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    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Western United States
  6. Climbing The Blues

    Climbing The Blues

    A UP manifest train climbs through freshly fallen snow in Oregon's Blue Mountains between Motanic and Nordeen. The 6 new inches of snow overnight did nothing to deter normal railroad operations.
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    • blue manifest motanic mountains nordeen oregon pacific snow trees union up
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Western United States
  7. Super Fruit

    Super Fruit

    One of the few Z trains to assault Oregon's Blue Mountains is the Z-SKWAP (and WASK) better known as the "Super Fruit". This train is designated to haul fruit products from a facility near Wallula, WA to the Midwest and is made up entirely of refrigerator cars. Here the empty refers...
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    • blue fruit glover motanic mountains oregon pacific snow super trees union up
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Western United States
  8. Almost There

    Almost There

    A variety of power has been used over the years in Oregon's Blue Mountains. Heavy grain trains, such as this GS-BRSE, used to be split in two and assigned 2 SD40-2s on either end. Today's operations see full grain trains with 3 4,000 horsepower units on the point and 4 more 3/4 of the way...
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    • blue grain kamela mountains nordeen oregon pacific snow trees union up
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Western United States
  9. Across the Baker Valley

    Across the Baker Valley

    On cold December morning UP's M-PCHK rolls west across the Baker Valley of northeast Oregon. As is typical for December in the valley, the wind is blowing around 30 mph causing drifts on the highways. No wonder this location is called North Powder!
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Western United States
  10. Conklin, NY

    Conklin, NY

    Conklin is the location of CP's yard in the Binghamton area. As the snow falls on the first day of December, a pair of GP9u's switch cars around in the yard.
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Eastern United States
  11. Kernan, Illinois

    Kernan, Illinois

    Westbound through Kernan, Illinois, on the old ATSF with four different BNSF paint schemes up front.
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    • Comments: 17
    • Category: Night Photos
  12. Ice covered NS 21A

    Ice covered NS 21A

    NS 21A westbound running on the NS Illinois Division's Lafayette District following a major shnow storm in North Central Indiana today. Sun appears a couple of hours prior to sunset for some sweet light.
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    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Eastern United States
  13. Ice covered NS 21A

    Ice covered NS 21A

    NS 21A westbound running on the NS Illinois Division's Lafayette District following a major shnow storm in North Central Indiana today. Sun appears a couple of hours prior to sunset for some sweet light.
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    • 21a division illinois ns snow storm
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Eastern United States
  14. Taconite loads headed to Biwabik

    Taconite loads headed to Biwabik

    The steam coming off the cars was a cool effect.
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    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  15. SD-Ms headed south

    SD-Ms headed south

    Not the greatest shot, but with only three of these left...
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    • ore sd9 snow winter
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  16. Light power to Duluth

    Light power to Duluth

    This set of engines went down to pick up a limestone train.
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    • ore snow winter
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Editors Choice Gallery
  17. Raw ore this time...

    Raw ore this time...

    This is a Thunderbird train.
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    • ore snow taconite winter
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  18. Ore Empties

    Ore Empties

    East of Ramshaw, MN
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    • ore snow taconite winter
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  19. MJRX 9010

    MJRX 9010

    Loaner MJRX (Railway Service Contractors) power on the Wisconsin & Southern in Janesville.
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    • 9010 janesville mjrx snow wsor
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Editors Choice Gallery
  20. Sutherland plow

    Sutherland plow

    To date I've only been able to make rosters of the Wilkie and Brendenburry plow, since our own, Sutherland plow just sits at the shops with his back turned to the public. I finally got lucky today, while shooting the Holiday train - look over the couplers and whom do I see? This looks like a...
    • Romet
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    • 400764 cp plow saskatoon snow snowplow sutherland
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Maintenance of Way and Non-Revenue Cars


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