Thunder Mountain Railroading...Afternoon thunderstorms have rolled into northern Arizona's high country, providing for dark and threatening clouds. Along with the sounds of distant thunder,... (more)

With the sunlight fading behind the western ladscape, four mighty GE locomotives snake their way through the Coconino Pine Forest near Flagstaff, Ariz. Here, this Los Angeles bound intermodal trai... (more)

February 3, 2016 would be one of the coldest days in Flagstaff with in the last twenty years. I woke up the temperature being -4 degrees and the low that morning was -9. I made the quick drive to ... (more)

For the next few months, Union Pacific trains will be detouring over the BNSF Transcon as track work is being performed along the Sunset Route. Here, one of the first trains to be detour rounds th... (more)

Westbound Lincoln to central California BNSF grain train GLINAGI was climbing toward the summit of the Arizona Divide near Cosnino

The sun has set below the horizon on the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide as an eastbound BNSF manifest snakes through the S-curve at Cosnino, Ariz.

Inbound and Outbound Just east of Flagstaff, Ariz. two Los Angeles Harbor trains are seen meeting at the S-curve of Cosnino. Luck played a huge factor in this shot as the head end of an eas... (more)

An clean 8100 series C4 pulls a loaded ethanol train around the s-curve of Cosnino. Even with a 3x3 locomotive consist, this train was still struggling up the grade; moving at about 15 MPH.

BNSF 745 leads a westbound H train at Cosnino.

A quartet of Santa Fe motors pull 78 platforms of stacks through Arizona's Coconino National Forest on Oct. 5, 1995.

From the last order of new cabooses, Santa Fe 999574 trails a westbound auto train through Arizona's Coconino National Forest on April 3, 1989. The 999574 was a member of Santa Fe's Ce-11 class of... (more)

A Santa Fe stack train ascends the Arizona Divide through ponderosa pines on the outskirts of Flagstaff the evening of Sept. 17, 1990.

An EMD GP60M/GP60B/GP60M combo (ATSF 136, ATSF 338, ATSF 122) lead a piggyback train east through Arizona's Coconino National Forest on Sept. 29, 1994.

A fun combo of GP60 and GP60B units pull a piggyback train east through Arizona's Coconino National Forest on Sept. 28, 1994.

A trio of flashy Santa Fe Super Fleet GEs lead a hot intermodal train west through the ponderosa pines of Arizona's Coconino National Forest on Oct. 5, 1995.