With the rain starting to fall again, Grand Canyon Railway's 2-8-2 steam locomotive #4960 chugging through Quivero after picking up the cowboys for the ride back.

Snow still counties to fall lightly during a late February storm in the college town of Flagstaff Ariz. BNSF 5101 begins to roll east again after stopping to pick up a dispatcher at the Flagstaff... (more)

Three BNSF General Electric locomotives battle up the 1.5 percent grade of Yampai Hill with intermodal containers from Memphis, TN to Los Angeles, CA in tow. You can hear the engines struggling up... (more)

BNSF's LNG locomotives are testing again round the Seligman Subdivision as they race through Griffith, Ariz. on a warm summer afternoon.

After holding the siding to let an empty coal sneak on by, the Pueblo, CO to Laurel, MT manifest battles gravity as it tries to get out of the siding. This train would be the last train to sneak t... (more)

The early morning rays of sun warm the head end of Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief as it races through Holbrook on a warm summer morning in eastern Arizona.

On a pleasant April afternoon, I got the motivation to "battle" the road to the Canyon Diablo bridge between Flagstaff and Winslow. One of the first trains I caught was the Richmond, CA to Allianc... (more)

One of BNSF's executive units hustles a westbound junk train down the western slope of the Arizona Divide days before a late winter storm would hit.

A solid lash up of "green goats" makes it feel like it's 1999 when BNSF was coming out with their new H1 paint scheme. Well, it isn't 1999 and times have changed. In 2015, these H1 painted locomot... (more)

Four 4400 horsepower locomotives are using every one of those horses to pull over a mile of sea containers through Nelson Canyon on the Hualapai Indian Reservation in Arizona.

BNSF's SD70ACe are rare to see out here in the Southwest, especially as the lead unit. Earlier that day, I saw one leading a westbound stack, but wasn't able to get a photo of it. Luckily, another... (more)

The daily Belen, NM to Barstow, CA manifest rounds the curve of Antares with a warbonnet on the point.

A pair of GE motors hustle an empty grain shuttle over Yampai Hill at Hackberry. Even though it is an empty train, the 1.5 percent grade begins to take its toll on the locomotives as they're worki... (more)

A westbound loaded grain train slowly navigates the down hill grade towards Seligman on the Crookton line change on a windy March evening.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train slowly climbs Ash Hill as it snakes across the Mojave Desert at Siberia.