For reasons unknown, the UP Super Bowl Special ran the sunset route after originating from Council Bluffs the day before. No complaints here however, as the train ran west on a picture perfect aft... (more)

Santa Fe GE C 40-8w 808 leads a eastbound at Cosnino east of flagstaff in the early morning on a nice day in June 1995 in the roads last year before the BNSF merger. The fairly clean warbonnet ... (more)

Long Beach stacks climb out of Flagstaff.

With four B truck locomotives, two EMD, two GE. On the train they were bought for a high speed hot shot pig train. (Tom Ellis photo)

An eastbound with a varied consist just north of Picacho.

The Coolidge Turn is diverging from the Sunset Line and is heading north to Coolidge.

The engineer widens out the throttle after getting a high green as an eastbound gets into the clear.

A westbound splits a pair of searchlight signals just west of Shawmut on a warm summer afternoon. The MKT 635 unit adds some color.

Santa fe GE C30-7 8126 leads a eastbound trough the big cut at west Williams junction on a fine morning on March 15th 1988

Santa Fe EMD SD 40-2 5124 leads the 951 train east on a beautiful morning New years day 1988

Union Pacific's "Spirit of the Union Pacific" commemorative unit leads the daily Phoenix to Tucson manifest through downtown Tempe on a cool Saturday afternoon in mid-January. This is on... (more)

A nice surprise to start out the new year, UP 1943 leads a Saturday afternoon Phoenix to Tucson manifest through Magma on the Phoenix Subdivision

A westbound BNSF Z train cruises down the grade at Parks just west of the Arizona continental divide after the first decent snowstorm of 2024

Eight inches of snow has covered the western slope of the Arizona Divide between Williams and Flagstaff, AZ. At Maine, BNSF crews are busy clearing the snow from the right-of-way to create a path ... (more)

With five motors on the point, the hot Z-WSPSBD3 waste no time descending down the Arizona Divide as it kicks up leftover snow at the control point of Maine.