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)
4011 & 4002 depart Clifton with the second train of the day to South Siding
After interchanging with Freeport McMoRan, Arizona Eastern Railroad's 4011 & 4002 depart Clifton with the second train of the day to South Siding
After interchanging with Freeport McMoRan, AZERs' 4011 & 4002 depart Clifton for South Siding, 4 Nov 2019
Arizona Eastern Railway's train 202 with three former Southern Pacific B40-8s at South Siding.
Arizona Eastern B40-8 #4006 crawls out of Tunnel #4 carefully bringing its heavy train down the steep grade into Clifton.
The inbound train from Lordsburg struggles up the 2.5% at MP 1206.
Sunset is near at MP1210 as the sun peeks through the gap between the trestle and the locomotive with a epic sunstar.
