Features:

Union Pacific in Northeast Kansas Winters • by Carl Graves — Northern Kansas is not rotary snowplow country, but winter occasionally provides an idea setting: bright sun, white ground and yellow engines.

McCloud Excursion • by Gordon Glattenberg — The snows in Northern California can wreak havoc with a freight schedule but McCloud Railroad uses the winter buildup as a backdrop for some spectacular winter excursions.

Celestial Dandruff • by Ron Flanary — Fifty years of central Appalachian winter railroading.

Pocatello Drifts • by Bob Davis — The high country around Kemmerer, Wyoming and between Cokeville, Wyoming and Lava Hot Springs, Idaho usually has plenty of snow to provide some good winter railfanning.

Consolation Prize at Foster • by George Pitarys — A seemingly unfortunate turn of events led to a backup plan that culminated in a classic scene of 1970s Canadian winter railroading.

Departments:

Opening Shots • by Ron Flanary

CTC Board—Current news items.

Parting Shot • by Mike Danneman