A quartet of Super Fleet warbonnets lead a Santa Fe piggyback train through Kingman Canyon.

Passing through the Sonoran Desert National Monument, this east bound inter-model is watched by the Saguaro cacti.

Dynamic brakes SCREAM as the afternoon ore train from ASARCO's Ray Mine descends to Ray junction en route to the concentrator at Hayden. A trio of GP39-2's are up front, as usual. It's around 2pm,... (more)

A spring rainshower moves through the Sonoran desert north of Phoenix as the afternoon transfer between Hayden and the ASARCO mine at Ray, Arizona climbs away from Ray Junction, three GP39's inclu... (more)

A westbound UP manifest passes over the famed Cienega Creek bridge as the cacti in the foreground bath in the late fall desert sun on November 23, 2012.

Warren Curve: Two Union Pacific SD90MACs (true 6000 h.p. SD90MAC-H locomotives), Nos. 8521 and 8513, pull a long freight eastbound through Warren, California, on March 28, 2001.

A westbound UP stack train passes one of the many Sonoran Cactus in the Shawmut area as it heads towards Gila Bend to meet 3 eastbounds on 11/24/12.

Sonoran cactus bathe in the desert sun as a eastbound UP Z train passes by at Shawmut,AZ on 11/24/12.

On Black Friday 2012, UP's hot Z train from Atlanta,GA to Los Angeles,CA hauls some Tropicana orange juice and other goods westbound as it crosses over the famed Cienega Creek bridge east of Vail,... (more)

A BNSF train of empty racks heads at Crookton, AZ heads east to be re-loaded, while a cactus catches the last golden rays of sunshine and soon would become glint cactus.

A BNSF TOFC train rolls through Kingman Canyon, while scampering around the rocks in the canyon one needs to be mindful of the cactus. I saw more than one individual move to swiftly only to find o... (more)

Marching through the desert: A Santa Fe westbound passes a Joshua tree west of Jimgrey, California, on March 7, 1996. Even though the railroad is now officially BNSF at this date, it’s hard to tel... (more)

A empty CBRY ore train drifts into the mine and away from the photographers grasp. Within the next hour and half the train will be loaded and readied for another trip to Hayden.

East bound 08:30 loads seen between Kearny and Hayden Junction Az.

At appropriately named Joshua siding two UP Century DD40Xs almost have a westbound over Cima summit in California Mojave Desert between Las Vegas and Barstow.