Running light engines between Tunnel Nos. 5 and 4 south of Clifton, Arizona, is the Arizona Eastern Railway’s South Siding to Clifton train making a second turn to Clifton on October 27, 2020. T... (more)

AZER 4006 battling up the grade through Steins Pass

Seen here on its downgrade journey into Lordsburg after battling Steins Pass

AZER 4006 leads the EB trip from Bowie to Lordsburg utilizing trackage rights with the Union Pacific. They hop on the UP tracks at Bowie, Az and take them all the way to Lordsburg, NM. After their... (more)

Hauling interchange traffic from Freeport McMoRan’s railroad operating from the giant copper mining complex at Morenci to Clifton, Arizona Eastern Railway’s South Siding to Clifton train works... (more)

Cloudy and rainy weather is moving in, but not until some final sun lights up Arizona Eastern Railway’s Clifton turn departing Clifton, Arizona, on October 26, 2020. The train has tied up traffi... (more)

A southbound Arizona Eastern freight climbs the grade out of Clifton, Arizona, as it threads Tunnel 1 on the afternoon of October 22, 2020.

A duo of B40-8s lift a cut of cars from the Freeport McMoran interchange at Clifton Arizona up the 2+% grade towards Stock Pen Tank. The unusual concrete bridge takes the Black Hills Byway acros... (more)

On October 25, 2020, a pair of GE B40-8s on an Arizona Eastern Railway job, switches boxcars used to ship copper cathodes and anodes at the smelter of Freeport McMoRan’s Miami Operations near Gl... (more)

After a rainy and cold day in the high desert country of Arizona, the sun breaks out briefly late in the afternoon, illuminating the scene in golden light, as the Arizona Eastern Railway South Sid... (more)

Arizona Eastern Railway’s turn operating from South Siding to Clifton and return is dropping downgrade approaching Clifton, Arizona, as it crosses the wood trestle over Ward Canyon Road on Octob... (more)

An Arizona Eastern train switches boxcars used to ship copper cathodes and anodes at the smelter of Freeport McMoRan’s Miami Operations near Globe, Arizona, on October 25, 2020. When they are fi... (more)

Arizona Eastern’s turn operating from South Siding to Clifton and return is climbing out of Clifton, Arizona, as it pops out of the barren portal of Tunnel 1 on October 22, 2020.

A southbound AE train was departing Claypool, AZ, on the former SP branch. The large Inspiration acid plant which provides almost all of the railroad traffic, is seen on the hill in the distance.

Arizona & Eastern B40-8 screams out of Clifton Tunnel #2 as it assaults the 2.12% grade out of the San Francisco River Canyon. This will be the second A&E Hill Turn out of Clifton. The Freeport ... (more)