Downtown Phoenix, Arizona, looms in the background as Valley Metro Rail LRV 139B runs down Jefferson Street as it approaches the 24th Street/Jefferson Light Rail Station on the First of December, ... (more)
Waiting for the next can of spray paint or the next assignment to safely carry a conductor...
844 walks into the Phoenix Yard. First steam in there in over 50 years.
Scrapping asphalt down is not what these plows were intended to do, but on this rough stretch of track, is indeed what they do. This local, nicknamed “The Sidewinder”, works out of Mobest Yard... (more)
Waiting for their next call to duty.
The 80" tall drivewheels dwarf a worker performing maintenance after the 844 arrived from Tucson.
Power for trains originating in UP's Phoenix terminal warm in the morning sun, while Phoenix's skyline looks on.
BNSF's ONPX rolls by the Glendale station as it nears Phoenix. Regular unleaded at the Circle K across the street was 93.9
A Jordan spreader sits in a siding in Phoenix
Amtrak dome-observation 9310, formerly Wabash 1601, decorates the rear of the Amtrak Transcontinental Steam Excursion as it arrives in Phoenix.
CHASE 'N KATY..... This Sunday afternoon brought Chase Field and the somewhat dirty "The Katy" into a single frame.
A Santa Fe GP30 basks in the morning sun waiting for its next assignment.
A nice array on EMD power in the form of two SD45-2's, a GP60 and GP30 stand ready for their next job at the Phoenix yard.
Train number one still heading toward the setting sun. Southern Pacific hit the nail on the head when they named this train the Sunset Limited. I was in the same sleeping car for three nights and ... (more)
