A view out the cab window and into the mirror of Copper Basin Railway EMD GP39 No. 505 on ore train OT-1 reveals the front part of the train rolling through a curve west of Hayden, Arizona, on Apr... (more)

Copper Basin Railway’s unit train rolls through Ray Junction, Arizona, late in the afternoon on April 20, 2017, led by CBRY No. 302, a rebuilt GP40 now classified as a GP40-3.

Two Copper Basin Railway employees work in the repair shop at Hayden, Arizona, on April 20, 2017. The shop is fully-equipped to make repairs to the railroad’s locomotive and freight car fleets, ... (more)

Most of my visits to the Copper Basin found this siding occupied with storage cars...but not today!

Ore empties are drifting from Hayden to the mine at Ray for more loading. At the time, trains schedules had been altered a bit from their traditional round-the-clock ops, but what the railroad ru... (more)

At near last light, the CBRY Unit Train comes onto the Ray Branch as they near their destination at the Ray Mine.

The UT heads off the Hayden Spur as they prepare to follow OT-1 west to the mine at Ray.

The "Unit Train" runs lite to the Hayden smelter to pick up their train for Ray.

Empty ore OT-1 heads through Kearny with a GP40 leader. That milepost on the right marks rail distance from San Francisco, a holdover from the SP era.

OT-1 thunders eastbound through Kearny with a loaded ore train.

OT-1 departs Ray under ominous skies.

The Magma Local returns east as they pass through Kelvin on the way back from the UP interchange at Magma Jct. One of the original GP39s assigned to this region is on the point.

Copper Basin's OT-1 ore train heads west through Kearny.

The Unit Train heads towards Ray Mine in the late afternoon.

The conductor and engineer of Copper Basin Railway’s OT-1 ore train shuttle talk to a mechanical employee as they fuel up their locomotives at Hayden, Arizona, on April 20, 2017.