CP 4230 is waiting for a westbound CSX freight to move out.
Light power heads north towards Holbrook on the first of 2 runs to pick up the last Blue Looper coal train on 8/16/12. The first run would be 21 mixed freight, 19 aluminum coal hoppers, and 11 blu... (more)
On a day that most likely will be the last time we will see 6 Alcos lashed up together on the Apache Railway, under stormy skies they head north to pick up the remaining 50 blue coal hoppers of th... (more)
Little did I know in May that shooting coal trains on the Apache would become a thing of the past less than a year later. Given recent events, I'm really glad I made the driver over from Flagstaf... (more)
Very sad news out of Snowflake, AZ today as Catalyst Paper announced the permanent closure of its Snowflake recycle mill and its subsidiary railroad that serves the mill, the Apache Railway Compan... (more)
Apache 99 is about 4 hours late as she heads South from Holbrook.
The turn from Holbrook climbs its last grades as it nears the yard at the end of the line at the Snowflake paper mill.
A southbound coal train has just topped the first grade out of Holbrook, AZ on its way to snow flake. These trains are often refered to as "Blue Loopers" due to the presence of the cars seen to th... (more)
A southbound coal train passes through a a cattleguard in the late afternoon light.
A 60 car loaded coal train grinds its way upgrade through a series of "S" curves outside its destination of of Snowflake.
An Apache Railway train climbs out of Holbrook, Ariz., on March 7, 2005. Heading up the train is a former Canadian Pacific Alco C-424, No. 97.
The Apache Railway's not-so-blue-today looper works its last few miles toward the huge paper mill outside Snowflake, AZ.
The Apache Railway's Blue Looper climbs out of Holbrook as it goes by Mile Post 5 on its way to Snowflake to drop off its load.
It is a cold, overcast winter day when a pair of CP MLW C424's, both with "pacman" logos, and an MLW FA-2 in gray and maroon script lettering lead an eastbound train out of Canadian Pacific's Agin... (more)
SB nears the junction of the abandoned line towards McNary.
