This was actually a panic shot, we saw the train coming when we drove over the bridge. Turned out to be a wellknown photospot.
Somewhere between Flagstaff and Winona, where bullet-riddled refrigerators are a common sight in nature (luckily not visible in the picture).
A brand new GEVO leads another stack train east into the rapidly rising sun.
A quartet of GEs head east at Darling with a stack train, while a westbound stacker passes on track 1.
Brand new ES44DC 7832 leads a stack train through the dip at Darling.
Four swooosh GEs lead a stacktrain through Winona.
An eastbound Z train cruises downgrade through the tiny town of Winona.
Quite the family heads east back to Winslow with the 71 local.
BNSF 7460 leads Clovis, NM bound stacks east on the Seligman Sub. Two more ES44DCs shove on the rear.
With the Coconino National Forest and the San Francisco Peaks as a backdrop, a quad of Santa Fe Super Fleet locomotives rush a hot piggyback train east through the tiny community of Winona, Arizon... (more)
Two DPUs trail this monster stack train as it makes its way through the sag at Darling. Not visible are the three lead units, which are roughly two miles away.
With the San Francisco Peaks as a backdrop eight GE's and one EMD lead an eastbound BNSF across northern Arizona at Darling.
Note that the city is listed as Winona and not Flagstaff. You can thank me later when you don't waste a half hour looking for this shot in the latter.
Storm clouds begin to break up overhead as a couple of NS engines stray far from home to help out a westbound BNSF train.
The setting sun lights up an eastbound stack train as it rolls downgrade through Darling.