At the end of a perfect day, a rainbow encircles a Montana Rail Link helper set trundling eastward at Austin, Montana, after helping a BNSF grain train over Mullan Pass on July 5, 2021.

A double rainbow adds color above a rear distributed power unit on a loaded ore train at Allouez yard in Superior.

Locomotive 319.324 in Pancorbo Station.

What’s your favorite color? It’s in there.

A rainbow is above as CN 321 approaches Turcot Ouest with CN 8873 and CN 2339 for power.

The evening switcher at Waterloo is in the process of running around their stuff at the interchange to begin to do the local stuff on the Alter Lead. Meanwhile Mother Nature is beating the Iowa la... (more)

66151 and 66155 top n tail 3J13 08:50 Westbury to St Blazey RHTT through Newton Abbot on Monday 26th October 2020

Storm clouds from a monsoon form over Antares, AZ as an eastbound stack train (Q LACLPC6) grinds up the grade out of Kingman under a double rainbow. This was a sight to see as 2020 have been a dry... (more)

The promise kept. The proverbial and actual rainbow after the storm appeared at Port Jervis, NY at the former Erie searchlights at 87-2 as New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway SU99 passed on... (more)

During November rain storm, the sun shines through the clouds, creating a rainbow, as a BNSF's Omaha, NE to Port of Los Angeles, CA stack train enters Kingman, AZ along BNSF's Southern Transcon.

The Storms of the High Plains

Isolated thunderstorms were marching easterly across the High Plains of eastern Colorado on July 29, 2020. The usual parade of westbound coal bu... (more)

The Storms over Denver & Big Ten

Storms continue to leave heavy rain and hail over the suburbs of Denver and the High Plains. The evening sun brings out a rainbow and is ab... (more)

WE 3067 and a variety of other Wheeling power takes a train west across the Speers Trestle just as a rainbow appears across the Mon Valley.

In the final hours of sunlight on June 19th, 2020, CSX train Q003 (South Kearny, NJ - Bedford Park, IL) crosses over High Falls in Rochester, NY as a rainbow forms in the waterfall's spray.

Under a double rainbow, CSX M705 rushes through the still wet fields of Canoe, AL just after a afternoon shower.