ESWR about eight minutes out from its destination at the HWY 509 crossing on the morning run up to Peabody Coal Company's Lee Ranch Mine.

A developing monsoonal thunderstorm towers over an empty coal train bound for El Segundo Mine near Lee Ranch Jct on this warm and muggy August morning. 8/13/11

Escalante Westerns three exB&O SD 40's lead the turn from the power plant near Prewitt, NM passing Lee Ranch Jct enroute to the Lee Ranch mine for loading before heading back to the power plant wh... (more)