As an eastbound Z train moves slowly past the camera, leaving its shadowy image on the film, a monsoon thunderstorm that rolled in from the east continues to rage over Vail.

The conductor of UP 5054 West gives an eastbound stack train a roll-by.

A retired SP TEBU sits on a spur in the Tuscon yard

An eastbound manifest prepares to leave the yard in Tuscon.

The truck on a brand-new UP AC-CTE shines in the warm afternoon sun in Tucson.

A hot westbound Z train scurries off the grade east of Tucson toward its first crew change since leaving El Paso.

A SD70ACe leaves the yard on the point of a westbound.

WS-42 runs Amtrak's Sunset Limited around a UP pig train at Kino in north Tucson with P42 No. 1 leading the passenger train.

Brand-new SD70M 4861 leads a stack train east out of Tucson with the Catalina Mountains shrouded in clouds.

Twin GP40-2 switching at Tucson yard.

empty copper concentrate cars

Three Amtrak paint schemes and an F40. This was the last time I saw an F40 on the Sunset Limited.

Doing every bit of trackspeed

Leading a ballast train towards Tuscon

Doing track speed with his colors showing behind him