A Union Pacific coal drags up hill, making a rumbling appearance through a rare & thick morning fog.

With the clouds rolling in overheard and a storm brewing in the distance. The Southern Pacific era searchlight signals light up once again as an eastbound freight approaches in the distance. Unlik... (more)

Under semi-clear night skies, the westward MFWWCW with the duo of 1943 & 4141 pulls out of the W. Shawmut Siding and continues its westward bound journey toward California.

Starting off 2019 with a rare fog in the desert! Also, the next day I was able to shoot snow in Southern Arizona on the Lordsburg Sub! Anyways, here is a Westbound intermodal rounding the curve ... (more)

Aging SP 7302, an SD40R rebuilt by the railroad in its Sacramento Shops, leads an eastbound UP intermodal train up the significant grade at Shawmut, AZ. The railroad has already gained approximate... (more)

The very last of the Southern Pacific searchlights stand tall in the middle of the Arizona desert.

An Eastbound Union Pacific train climbs up the hill at Shawmut on a late summer afternoon, in front of the famous Southern Arizona Saguaros.

An empty UP auto train climbs the grade at Shawmut, AZ

A Union Pacific intermodal rolls downhill in the Sonoran Desert with a growing monsoon storm to the East.

A westbound stack train goes in the hole at Shawmut in the last minutes of daylight. The desert floor becomes covered in the mountain shadows and the silhouettes of the wide spread mountains in th... (more)

UP 8593 leads a intermodal through the curves at Shawmut

UP 1983 leads a K train through the vast open deserts of southern AZ.

The DPU's of an extremely heavy EB coal train fight the 1.2% grade through Shawmut in the last sunset of 2017.

A Union Pacific Auto Rack climbs up hill through the curves of Shawmut. The desert floor is the only place left with sunlight, as the sun fades behind the mountains that surround. This train has t... (more)

A very long UP manifest headed east up the grade to Estrella runs through the siding at Shawmut, AZ. The alignment the train is using is the original right of way built by Southern Pacific when it... (more)