The northwest corner of Colorado is easily characterized as rugged; it's a tough place for anything to survive, and as the scrub brush adorning the rocky ridges attests, precipitation is a scarce commodity. However, it is in this tough land that the Deseret Power Railway not only survives, but even thrives -- some eight to ten loaded coal trains roll across this lumpy landscape each week, fueling the hungry fires of a power plant eager to supply electricity to its distant customers. A line of thunderstorms looms above the horizon as the swing shift's loaded train drops down the back side of Holum Pass, still a good 30 miles and an hour of hard running from its destination near Bonanza. Photo from railroad property taken with permission.
For the train and storm chaser. Trains with thunderstorms, dark clouds, rain, lightning, hurricanes - tropical storms, funnel clouds, storm light, rainbows, and snow storms.
