Wasting no time getting up to speed, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief races up the Continental Divide, after making its station stop in Gallup, NM, on a chilly October morning.
With fresh powder on the ground, a slow moving BARGAL manifest train grades the grade up through Crozier Canyon, and through the community of Valentine.
The cold mountain really shows off the warm exhaust coming from the stacks of four General Electric locomotives as they charge up towards the 7,000' high summit of the Arizona Divide at Williams J... (more)
A pair of C44-9Ws pull a empty military train up the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide as it passes the remains of the 30 car derailment from October at Angell.