Sunday Thunderheads

Late last Sunday afternoon August 15th I headed over to Aledo, TX on the UP Baird Sub just west of Fort Worth as some interesting thunderheads were growing back to the east. I needed a westbound train to take advantage of the evening light on the clouds, but the first train was an eastbound just before 7:00pm. I worked out a broadside shot in the small city park of the UP 4641 East to allow for the strong back lighting.

The eastbound met a westbound at Iona just three miles east, and at 7:09pm my luck held just before the light was lost as the UP 9666 West came through the scene I had composed.

 The next day on Monday evening Judy and I were having dinner in the great little Mexican restaurant called Jorge’s with a track side view on the left at the grade crossing in the thunderhead photo. New thunderheads were present in the background as a westbound manifest rolled by the restaurant’s picture window, and I did not know at the time that Steve Grabman was across the street in the park getting his own fine thunderhead shot.  I put these two shots up on Trainorders.com just now with an invitation for BNSFDS to share his excellent shot there also.