With snow still on the top of the San Francisco Peaks in May, a heavy Los Angeles Harbor stack train slowly rolls into Winslow, AZ. After making the 295 mile long trip from Needles, CA to the crew... (more)

Slowly moving towards the 7,335 ft high summit of the Arizona Divide, this Q CHISBD6 stack train works hard up the 1.5 percent grade between Darling and Cosnino, AZ as snakes along side the San Fr... (more)

Grand Canyon Railway's steam locomotives #29 and #4960 tagged up together to provide one of the best railroading excursions this year. Here, GCRY 29 pumps out a lot of smoke as it leaves Quivero a... (more)

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Services across the United States, the Grand Canyon Railway ran both of their steam engines, double headed, to Grand Canyon National Park, o... (more)

As the sun sets below the horizon and the sunflowers fade into darkness, the last train of the day for the Grand Canyon Railway shoves back into the storage yard where the passenger set will sit o... (more)

Grand Canyon Railway's newest member to the active roster is locomotive #29. GCRY 29, a 2-8-0 steam locomotive, makes its first southbound run on the Williams Flyer train; returning its passengers... (more)

A pair of Apache Railway locomotives bring back one, lonely, hopper car back to Snowflake after picking it up in Holbrook. The train left Holbrook with eight cars (six tank cars and two hopper car... (more)

The sounds of GE locomotives slowly grinding up the grade grow louder and louder on a warm August night in Valentine, AZ. Soon, the headlights of an eastbound train appear and illuminate a silhoue... (more)

I remember eating dinner with a friend of mine, who's an engineer for the BNSF out Lincoln, NE, who told me "there's nothing like controlling a 16,000 ton coal train and watching an amazing s... (more)

The Route 66 overpass at Crookton has been a popular spot to park and watch trains start the climb up the Arizona Divide. Over the years, railfans have place memorable items along the guard rail o... (more)

Traffic begins to backup along the western leg of BNSF Seligman Subdivision as track work ties up the eastbound main track from Valentine (MP 485) to Walapai (MP 499). As result, tracks work signa... (more)

After having a signal drop from clear to red, this heavy Chicago-bound stack train slowly moves through Nelson Canyon as it tries to get back up to track speed. Here, the two DPU locomotives work ... (more)

The two DPUs on an eastbound Los Angeles Harbor (Pier 400), CA to Logistic Park Chicago, IL stack train slowly works up the grade into Crozier Canyon on a warm, August, evening. Thrown into the mi... (more)

The sun has set on the second day of August along the former Santa Fe Transcon in northwestern Arizona. Not soon after, the sounds of GE motors working up the grade out of Kingman begin to be loud... (more)

Recently, BNSF Railway has brought back many of their older locomotives out of storage to help with high volume of grain trains expected this fall in the Midwest. As a result, some of these stored... (more)