A thunderstorm that has blown in the from the east is sending reddish-colored lightning down to the ground right on top of the Sunset Route at the far eastern edge of Tucson. If memory serves me c... (more)

A thunderstorm rages over Marana, Arizona, as a UP freight leaves its mark at a crossing on the outskirts of the small town.

An approaching UP westbound lights up the railroad code lines at dusk.

A BNSF stack train tops the grade at Maine as it attacks the western slope of the Arizona Divide.

At dusk, an eastbound intermodal train drops down the stair-step grade from Decatur on its way to Alliance Yard.

At dusk, the headlight of a helper being cut into an eastbound manifest reflects off the flanks of the train's boxcars.

A heavy train of iron ore from Eagle Mountain starts its climb of Beaumont Hill just as the sun sets.

The North Line Local begins the climb up the western slope of the Dragoon Mountains at sunset after doing some work in Benson.

After a pig train passes him at Sando, 231 streaks out of the siding and contniues his westward trip toward Richmond.

On a balmy evening in July, an F45 leads a 943 train down the Valley with the sky glowing red just after sundown.

A long string of locomotives pulls a manifest uphill through the reverse curves of Clear Creek Ravine toward tunnel 5.

NS 9335 West descends a hogback in Longview with a long string of new tankcars.

UP double track at dusk in the Dragoon Mountains.

With a reddish light from a school yard providing backgound illumination through the pea soup fog, the ABS signal at the west end of Knighsen glows red as an eastbound approaches, and shoots its b... (more)

With part of the sun already below the horizon, a BNSF eastbound assaults the western slope of Bolo Hill with Amboy Crater visible in the distance to the left.