Freeport McMoRan EMD GP38-2 No. 9 sits in the yard at Clifton, Arizona, on October 28, 2020. The locomotive is specially-painted to honor our United States military veterans, and is named “The Mor... (more)

UP 2767 leads a manifest downgrade through the curves at Sibyl

UP 8942 in the lead of a long and heavy WB manifest as it passes downgrade over the Cienega Creek bridge

Shadows begin to rapidly grow long as the autumn sun dips below the horizon as a westbound intermodal train, bound for the ports of Northern California, races around the 70 MPH curve of Antares. L... (more)

The sun has just came up, and it's going to be a good day. The sky is clear, and the Santa Fe is running beautiful trains.

An Arizona Eastern train switches boxcars used to ship copper cathodes and anodes at the smelter of Freeport McMoRan’s Miami Operations near Globe, Arizona, on October 25, 2020. When they are fini... (more)

What a time to be a railfan, the return of the Red and Silver was fantastic. An A-B-B-A set of GP60M's

Arizona Eastern’s turn operating from South Siding to Clifton and return is climbing out of Clifton, Arizona, as it pops out of the barren portal of Tunnel 1 on October 22, 2020.

Freeport McMoRan’s first hill turn of October 22, 2020, rattles the rafters of the church along Riverside Drive as it climbs the steep grade out of Clifton, Arizona.

A powered up Z SBDWSP8 waste no time grinding up the grade out Kingman on a chilly, autumn evening as the five motors pull the 7,300' train over one of the many hogbacks near Antares, AZ.

BNSF 9283 leads a massive Amarillo to Barstow manifest through Crookton AZ

BNSF 5501 leads a hot Z train through Williams AZ

A heavy Freeport-McMoRan train of loaded acid tanks curves through the cut approaching Corral Road grade crossing while climbing the torturous three to five percent grade from the Arizona Eastern ... (more)

My dad truly loved everything about the Santa Fe. He passed that love onto me also. Even though we live in Union Pacific country, we couldn't wait to get down on the Santa Fe. Here is one of his s... (more)

A Los Angeles, CA to St. Louis, MO intermodal train charges up the hill out of Kingman as it passes through the railroad area of Walapai on a chilly December evening.