The trailing DPU on this westbound manifest continues downgrade on the Transcon after passing through the crossing Garland Prairie Road east of Williams Junction. This train would then continue do... (more)

This year has been an active monsoon season which has resulted in some of the greenest conditions I have ever seen in Northern Arizona. Here the westbound QCHIPHX descends the grade at Daze, AZ lo... (more)

A recently rebuilt ex-Southern Pacific AC44 leads the daily westbound Atlanta to Los Angeles Z train out of Maricopa on a nice April afternoon.

What was once ruling the rails of the Santa Fe between Chicago and LA during the heart of the Steam Age until the early 1950's rests in Locomotive Park, a park in historic downtown Kingman. Built ... (more)

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

A Santa Fe westbound manifest train In the Crookton cutoff taken from my friend Dons Airplane

Seconds before subrise an eastbound BNSF train runs through Dennison on the Seligman Sub. Every July I make it a point to visit the spot and see what the AZ sky has to offer.

A overpowered Belen, New Mexico to Barstow, California manifest train rolls through the control point at Maine on a cool April afternoon.

The railroad was about a month away from pulling its final trains in July 2019. The rails remain in place, perhaps for future use, but its isolated from the rest of the North American railroad sy... (more)

First cut of cars for the day has come down from Clifton ahead of the FMI interchange. #203 will swap cars with #202 then take them into Clifton for FMI, who will also have cars to swap and send ... (more)

Wearing the "Think Pink" logo, #53 leads the first cut of cars down the hill out of the Morenci mine to Clifton for AZER. This can happen up to three times a day depending on traffic.

An operation you had to want to see to get to it. Totally isolated from the rest of North America's rail system once roamed the Black Mesa & Lake Powell, delivering coal loads around the clock fr... (more)

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)

Some late afternoon clouds bracket a westbound Hotshot on the Seligman Sub

Santa Fe C44-9w 622 leads a eastbound up the last few yards of grade to crest the Arizona divide at Riordan on a beautiful fall morning in 1994 sadly the Santa Fe had only one year left