March 23rd was a good day to be out on the Gila Subdivision. Two of UP's specially painted SD70ACe's were leading westbounds to Los Angeles. Pictured here is the first of the two, UP 1111, known a... (more)

A pair of UP locomotives lead a westbound baretable train through Valentine on a warm spring evening.

ATSF 126 gets a wave as it heads an eastbound through Flagstaff in 1994. When did ATSF become part of BNSF?

CBRY 202 leads an empty copper slag train up towards the smelter in Hayden. They will load up, run back down the branch, and pull through the dumper in a few hours

A spring rain storm is starting to lighting up around Crozier Canyon, AZ . The sound of rain is being overshadowed by the sounds of heavy dynamic braking motors as they hold back a heavy train on ... (more)

An approaching storm makes for an incredible sunset, especially with a well timed eastbound container train. If you have driven I-40 across the mostly flat desert of central Arizona between Flagst... (more)

NS 4002, one of Norfolk Southern's DC to AC rebuilt locomotives, descends down the grade between Crozier Canyon and Valentine as it leads a San Bernardino, CA bound Z-train. Unlike Norfolk Souther... (more)

Only moments away from the sun dropping below the western horizon, an eastbound mixed freight shoves back to switch cars in the small yard at Picacho on UP’s Gila Subdivision at 6:51pm.

A pair of Dash 9 locomotives bring up the rear of the Stockton, CA to Atlanta, GA intermodal train as it grinds up the 1.4% grade into Crozier Canyon.

A Barstow, CA to Galesburg, IL manifest train as it climbs the 1.4% grade towards Crozier Canyon. Trailing in the lead consist is BNSF 639 & BNSF 973. Both units have been picked apart, with gaps ... (more)

A Barstow, CA to Galesburg, IL manifest train as it climbs the 1.4% grade towards Crozier Canyon. Trailing in the lead consist is BNSF 639 & BNSF 973. Both units have been picked apart, with gaps ... (more)

A GE AC4400CW leads the Barstow, CA to Galesburg, IL manifest train as it climbs the 1.4% grade towards Crozier Canyon. Trailing in the lead consist is BNSF 639 & BNSF 973. Both units have been pi... (more)

A Willow Springs, IL to San Bernardino, CA Z-train meets an eastbound stack train near Kingman, AZ. The Z-WSPSBD would be the first of five westbound Z-trains we would see while at this location.

The Memphis, TN to Los Angeles, CA Z-train descends down off the shelf from Walapai and then charges towards Kingman.

A heavy eastbound stack train from the Port of Long Beach battles the grade of Kingman Canyon as it traverses over the Arizona Divide and BNSF's Seligman Sub.