Cloudy and rainy weather is moving in, but not until some final sun lights up Arizona Eastern Railway’s Clifton turn departing Clifton, Arizona, on October 26, 2020. The train has tied up traffi... (more)

Rolling downgrade through serpentine trackage into Clifton Arizona, is a set of Freeport McMoRan power on October 23, 2020. The locomotives will pick up interchange cars left by the Arizona Easter... (more)

CRAZY Steep Non Compensated Grade! Blasting up a desert mountain at walking speed with 5 Geeps and 22 loads of sulphur and acid! I have done some research to figure out just how steep this... (more)

A southbound Arizona Eastern freight climbs the grade out of Clifton, Arizona, as it threads Tunnel 1 on the afternoon of October 22, 2020.

A Freeport McMoran Hill Turn slides down the steep grade between Corral Cut and Clifton. The grade here varies between 3.5-4.2%, when compensated for curvature the grade is a equivalent to almost ... (more)

A duo of B40-8s lift a cut of cars from the Freeport McMoran interchange at Clifton Arizona up the 2+% grade towards Stock Pen Tank. The unusual concrete bridge takes the Black Hills Byway acros... (more)

After a rainy and cold day in the high desert country of Arizona, the sun breaks out briefly late in the afternoon, illuminating the scene in golden light, as the Arizona Eastern Railway South Sid... (more)

Dynamic brakes howl from five locomotives on a Freeport McMoRan train dropping downgrade between Morenci and Clifton, Arizona, on October 27, 2020. The train is delivering interchange traffic from... (more)

10,000 Horsepower 3100 Tons! The 2nd run up the 4%+ Shannon Hill is down to its knees as it approaches the big cut near the Morenci Corrals. The lead GP38-2 was built in 3/76 and is wea... (more)

Arizona Eastern Railway’s turn operating from South Siding to Clifton and return is dropping downgrade approaching Clifton, Arizona, as it crosses the wood trestle over Ward Canyon Road on Octob... (more)

Power on Freeport McMoRan’s first train to the Arizona Eastern’s interchange yard at Clifton, Arizona, is at the very end of track, to leave enough headroom so FMI’s second train that is fol... (more)

Freeport McMoRan EMD GP38-2 No. 9 sits in the yard at Clifton, Arizona, on October 28, 2020. The locomotive is specially-painted to honor our United States military veterans, and is named “The M... (more)

Arizona Eastern’s turn operating from South Siding to Clifton and return is climbing out of Clifton, Arizona, as it pops out of the barren portal of Tunnel 1 on October 22, 2020.

Freeport McMoRan’s first hill turn of October 22, 2020, rattles the rafters of the church along Riverside Drive as it climbs the steep grade out of Clifton, Arizona.

The first of two Hill jobs on this October morning drops down the 4.5%+ slide above the site of the former Shannon Smelter. Earlier in the morning the job switched the Acid tracks at the massive ... (more)