With the Audley Cliffs loaming in the back, an Atlanta, GA to Los Angeles, CA stack train slowly grinds up the 1.5% grade of Yampai Hill as it prepares to stop at the summit of the hill.
A westbound grain train is plodding up the steep grade from Pica to Yampai summit. After surmounting the grade in another mile, it will be downhill for over a hundred miles to Needles.
In summer '17 another of a parade of westbound BNSF intermodal trains was climbing the east slope of Yampai Hill near Yampai, AZ. on a beautiful afternoon.
Bright orange BNSF engines emerge from the wall of snow falling at Yampai just short of the summit. Yampai usually does not see heavy snowfall like it did the night before, so my friend and I were... (more)