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

The Magma Turn beginning it’s trek back to Hayden after doing their interchange work with UP in Magma. Smoke it up!

The Copper Basin Magma Turn wrapping through the desert outside of Florence as they make their way towards from Hayden, AZ. Thanks to great help from a local railfan who gave the tip off on the ru... (more)

The Copper Basin Magma Turn creeping through the desert on a cool December morning. They will go to the UP interchange in Magma and then head back South for their home base of Hayden.

It was no April Fool's joke seeing CBRY's interchange turn come into view with 4 motors on this clear morning. And the spirits were high from then out out for the rest of the day. Kicking things o... (more)

CBRY LOCAL-01 coming into Florence, AZ with cars from Hayden to start the week for the Interchange Job.

CBRY's Magma turn runs east after interchanging with the UP earlier in the morning. I had gotten a call from a friend less than 5 minutes after waking up this morning, that the outbound train was ... (more)

CBRY 301 passes former SP searchlights as they leave the UP interchange and head back for Hayden.

After hauling into Phoenix to replace a camera (poor Noah), we headed back to the Copper Basin where we found the UP interchange job heading back to Hayden. Here we see CBRY 303 pulling the train ... (more)

CBRY 201 pulls the loaded train into the smelter dump that's just outside of Hayden Yard.

Now loaded, the smelter job goes back down the hill with GP18 201 on the rear of the train. To the left is Copper Basin's Hayden Yard where all their trains originate out of.

The Copper Basin smelter train runs up the hill with CBRY 201 leading. The 201 is an ex Rock Island F7B that they rebuilt into a GP18.

The Copper Basin starts its day by running the smelter train around its yard so it can go up the hill and into the mine at Hayden.

Copper Basin Railway train OT-1, with 60 cars loaded with 7800 tons of sulfide ore from the copper mine at Ray, heads southbound through a Saguaro forest toward Ray Junction on its run to the smel... (more)

Once my favorite shortline in America. At the time of this shot, the only train missing from CBRY's 24 hour schedule was the morning run to/from Ray. I would give anything for that being the only... (more)