A Happy Valley Helper set leads a westbound Espee manifest on the Sunset Route. When we visited the area, the GP35 pairs seemed to be everywhere.

With a little snow still on the ground from a storm earlier today, an eastbound SP pig train passes the big coaling tower at Mescal, AZ. The tower appears to have been built shortly after SP acqui... (more)

The AZER Bowie turn depicted in photo 659885 is seen at destination being passed by a SP double stacker headed by a pair of GP60s.

SD40-2r 7370, a B30-7 and a B39-8 lead a westbound past the salt flats at Cochise, Arizona.

Amtrak's Sunset Limited rolls into the Arizona sunset on a summer evening in 1988. We were quite pleased to see the SP GE assisting.

At sunset, two UP westbounds prepare to depart Tucson Yard. The Tucson yardmaster will let their crews know when they can proceed to the mainline.

Southern Pacific 8526 heads West past a relic left over from the Steam engine era, the concrete coaling tower at Mescal, AZ.

After switching at Benson, a North Line Local begins its eastward assault of the Dragoon Mountains.

An eastbound SP stack train tops the grade at Mescal and passes the aging coaling tower there.

before SP sold off it's copper concentrate operations on this branch to the Copper Basin Railway SP used GP40-slug-GP40 sets to power the copper concentrate trains from Ray Jct, where they were in... (more)

A piggyback train speeds westbound past the old concrete coaling tower at Mescal, Arizona.

Caboose of an eastbound train passing the blades at Marsh Station. East of Tuscon on the Sunset Route.

SP 9754 West charges through Benson as the sun sets on the Dragoon Mountains in the distance.