The signal at Rillito's west end stands quietly as lightning crashes over the Tortolita Mountains.

UP 4983 West enters Tucson Yard at sunset under monsoon skies.

A burst of lightning fills the sky during a monsoon thunderstorm as a UP train passes a grade crossing at night.

Eastbound UP stack train lights up a westbound unit grain train in the siding at Wilmot Road at night.

A Santa Fe eastbound coming off a run across the San Joaquin Delta approaches Stockton Tower at sunset.

Santa Fe 7441 East roars out of Ballico siding after meeting a westbound Amtrak San Joaquin.

Swing helper on SP eastbound at Towle.

SP westbound manifest skirts the Truckee River a few miles east of Truckee.

SP SD40T-2 No. 8356 leads an eastbound manifest in a meet with a Santa Fe pig train in Tehachapi Pass.

Brakemen chat as their eastbound and helper wait in front of Avery depot at dusk.

Milwaukee Road Little Joe has just cut off of westbound after helping it over St. Paul Pass.

Boxcab helps eastbound up Pipestone Pass; is approaching tunnel at summit of the pass.

Boxcab that helped eastbound out of Butte has now cut off and is in siding as train continues east.

Engineer Ben Martin crosses the large through-truss bridge over the Delaware at track speed in the early morning with his home terminal of Binghamton just a few hours away. For prints, email bottl... (more)

A long wait at the end of a trip is rewarded with one final westbound for the patient photographers, though the delayed trip home would end with the photographer hitting a deer at 3 in the morning... (more)