In May of 1996 I was able to take a couple of days to chase trains while visiting my family in southern California. I headed out to the high desert and found brilliant sun, blue skies and the desert floor carpeted in yellow poppies. On my second day out ominous storm clouds began to form over the Tehachapis, and by afternoon a full blown thunderstorm with thunder, lightning, hail, and rain was descending upon the town of Mojave. Once again I lucked out, finding a Southern Pacific coal train highballing out of town, into the sun just ahead of the storm.
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