A late monsoon season thunderstorm provides the backdrop for this westbound BNSF manifest as it passes Bluewater,NM 9/12/12.

Amtrak #3 races west out of a late monsoon season thunderstorm 9/12/12. A partial rainbow and rays of sun stand out from the dark sky in the background.

A late running Z9 from Willow Springs,IL to Stockton,CA heads west into a sun break at Bluewater,NM under stormy skies 9/2/12. 5 minutes later the sun would disappear for the rest of the day behin... (more)

Amtrak train #3,the Southwest Chief, led by Phase 3 painted heritage Unit #145, finds a sun break as it heads west under stormy skies near Bluewater,NM 9/2/12.

Todays 8 car Holbrook turn is framed under it's parent company's sign as it arrives the yard at the paper mill on 8/24/12.

Today's Holbrook turn returns back south with 8 tank cars of slurry. The 81 is actually isolated due to traction motor/ground relay problems, leaving the remaining 24 cars behind in Holbrook Yard.... (more)

Amtrak #3 heads west off of the Continental Divide under stormy skies on 8/12/12.

Light power heads north towards Holbrook on the first of 2 runs to pick up the last Blue Looper coal train on 8/16/12. The first run would be 21 mixed freight, 19 aluminum coal hoppers, and 11 blu... (more)

On a day that most likely will be the last time we will see 6 Alcos lashed up together on the Apache Railway, under stormy skies they head north to pick up the remaining 50 blue coal hoppers of th... (more)

Patience yields results: 30 seconds before the sun ducks behind the clouds and horizon for the rest of the the day(it was a 3 minute sunbreak), a solid trailer train from Willow Springs, IL to San... (more)

Just west of Glen Ulin, ND, a manifest frieght from Crane, MT to Northtown, MN passes by a freshly cut hay field and associated hay bales as the skies darken from approaching thunderstorms the mor... (more)

All 3 of DMVW's SD45's clear out some carbon as they lead a loaded corn train up the hill after entering the BNSF Jamestown Sub at McKenzie, ND 7/30/12. The train had been idling all weekend in Na... (more)

Normally you can see the mesa behind Amtrak #3 here, but a wall of heavy rain has covered it as monsoonal thunderstorms would dump 2 inches of rain in 3 hours here on 7/5/12.

Amtrak train #3 heads west as more thunderstorms develop behind the train at Milan, NM 7/9/12.

A badly faded UP ES44AC leads some older UP EMD's eastbound on a light power move at Lime,OR 6/21/12.