On a sunny and bright October 23, 2020, Freeport-McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2 locomotives work hard on a train of loaded acid tank cars curving through corral cut while climbing the steep grade from Clif... (more)

On October 23, 2020, a set of Freeport McMoRan power heads downgrade between Morenci and Clifton, Arizona. The four units will lift another train interchanged from Arizona Eastern Railway, bound f... (more)

Rolling downgrade through serpentine trackage into Clifton Arizona, is a set of Freeport McMoRan power on October 23, 2020. The locomotives will pick up interchange cars left by the Arizona Easter... (more)

Freeport-McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2 locomotives work hard on a train of loaded acid tank cars curving through corral cut while climbing the steep three to five percent grade from the Arizona Eastern Ra... (more)

Freeport McMoRan’s first hill turn of October 22, 2020, rattles the rafters of the church along Riverside Drive as it climbs the steep grade out of Clifton, Arizona.

The Little Engines that Could! In a isolated corner of Arizona lies the meanest operational railroad grade in the United States, the 3%+ climb up Shannon Hill. The grade climbs a ramp from... (more)

FMI drags Morenci bound cars up the steep grade.

This railroad is short, but sweet.

Freeport McMoRan's power works the AZER interchange.

A bunch of Freeport McMoRan's weird GPs haul a train up the grade the seems too steep to be real.

After picking up a cut of cars from the AZER interchange, the FMI charges up the 5% hill to Morenci Mine.