During a crew change at Sharon Springs, Kansas, Union Pacific’s rotary snowplow No. 900082 gets serviced and cleaned off of accumulated snow and ice. Trains have been stranded here for several days, and this plow run east from Denver on January 1, 2007 is to open up the Kansas Pacific line to Salina. High winds and 32 inches of snow buried the town during the December 29-30 storm.

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The bitter cold can play havoc on track. Here, two Wisconsin Central trackmen fix broken track bolts that were sheared off by the contracting rail in a “pull apart.” A kerosene-soaked rope is placed alongside the offending rail and lit, creating enough heat for the rail to expand closing up the joint, and allowing the holes to once again line up and new bolts installed. WC train No. 2 approaches in the distance, but will have to wait until the job is done before entering Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac on the late afternoon of December 12, 1994.

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On a damp December 8, 1985, MKT MP15AC No. 57 switches at Glenn Park Yard in Kansas City, Kansas, as cabooses from the home road and Soo Line stand by.

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A Canadian National maintenance-of-way foreman waits for the passage of trains Nos. 416 and 412 before he can get some track-and-time to work on the grade crossing at Pedley, Alberta, on the morning of July 20, 2011.

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Green Bay and Western RS3u No. 308 switches in Green Bay, Wisconsin on October 14, 1985. Things were different back then; one guy on the pilot of 308, and these two on the rear, and the engineer running the locomotive, and possibly another railroader in the caboose.

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