Santa Fe's Winslow to Phoenix piggyback train departs Darling, Arizona on Sept. 28, 1994.

As storm clouds brew above the San Francisco Peaks, a 94 car Santa Fe intermodal navigates a sweeping curve near Darling, Arizona on Sept. 30, 1994.

Santa Fe intermodal trains meet at Darling, Arizona on Oct. 5, 1995.

A quartet of Kodachome painted EMDs (and a single Bluebonnet) lead a westbound Santa Fe mixed freight through Darling, Arizona on March 31, 1989.

At over 12,000 feet Mt. Humphrey Arizona's highest peak looms in the background as four EMD yellow bonnets lead an eastbound on the Transcon.

AMTK 75 leads the Southwest Chief as the sun glistens on the San Francisco peaks.

Full moon over the Transcon. An ES44C4 leads this west bound out of a colorfull sunset sky.

Five stout beasts ply the fiery rails of the BNSF Transcom at sunset. Even the relatively light load of a double stack train keeps these locomotives working hard, as they hit the halfway mark in ... (more)

A brisk drive over a mostly gravel portion of old Route 66 is needed to reach this rather isolated location on the BNSF Transcon, but certainly well worth it. Here we have one of countless stack t... (more)

While storm clouds build along the San Francisco Peaks, Amtrak's Southwest Chief train #4 descends Santa Fe's Seligman Sub in Arizona's Coconino National Forest.

Back when intermodal trains often consisted of trailers, rather than containers

Crossing from main to main and working the grade up the Winona Sag in a colorful north Arizonan landscape.

Four GEs lead a doublestack east on the Transcon.

Early morning at Darling on BNSF's Seligman Sub with the San Francisco Peaks in the background.

Early morning at Darling on BNSF's Seligman Sub.