HLCX 3803 idles with Union Pacific engines at the diesel service area in the Tucson yard.

UP 8064 and UP 5026 push on the back of a long manifest train heading west into the Tucson yard.

It is a beautiful morning as Union Pacific 7183 and Norfolk Southern 3610 accelerate a long doublestack train east out of the yard in Tucson, Arizona.

It was getting a little stressful watching the shadows as MEWWC came west just before the sun set with a colorful trio of units passing a neat warehouse on the left.

ILXSA passes West Kolb as Eric from Central Penn Rail Productions films their passage on the left. One of 75 or so Ferromex units on horsepower hour payback to UP at the time is second out.

KCS 4177 arriving at Tucson for setouts

Tired Union Pacific EMD GP40-2 No. 1413 still carries its weathered Southern Pacific colors as it leads the YTU70 job at UP’s Tucson yard on the afternoon of April 24, 2017.

CP 8793 roars out of Tucson to start their journey east

UP 8808 charges out of Tucson yard on a beautiful November evening

On New Year's Day 2002, UP 9070 West idles at Wilmot Road in Tucson, awaiting a new crew. The train is parked behind another westbound. These parked trains are reminiscent of the meltdown that occ... (more)

On a clear fall morning at Tucson's Amtrak depot, a private fuel contractor tops off the diesel tanks of the GE Genesis locomotives on the point of today's eastbound Sunset Limited.

A Big Boy in The Land of The Gila Monster.

For the first time since the close of the steam era, an articulated steam locomotive took to the rails in Southeastern Arizona.
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A CCRCL rebuilt from a vintage Cotton Belt B23-7 pulls a cut of cars out of Tucson Yard while Mica Mountain looms on the horizon.

A westbound UP manifest runs around a stack train on Track 1 at Irvington under threatening skies. Conrail C40-8W No. 7313 is run-through pool power which will likely makes it all the way to the W... (more)

An awesome class unit and extremely rare leader for Arizona, CN 8000, pulls an autorack train uphill out of Tucson heading for Texas.