Speaking from experience this is the worst time of the year for railroaders. Well at least for engineers, when the fog starts rolling in. Where I worked between Seattle, and Portland it became fog alley for most of the trip from early October-January. It’s weird and exciting to be rolling along at 50 mph on a clear block, and only see the blocks pop out of the fog right on the nose of the locomotive, but its a completely different ball game when you’re running on restricted blocks and you can’t see 20’ past the nose. You learn the territory really quick by counting curves, crossings, etc between blocks.
Now for railfans it’s completely different Take some shots and I’d be interested to see them.