After an afternoon of rain showers across northern Arizona, a rainbow has appeared along the eastern side of Flagstaff. With only a few minutes left of sunlight, the slow moving Belen, NM to Phoen... (more)

A six car BNSF officer special races out of Flagstaff, Ariz., on perfect September evening. With the historic downtown skyline in the background, the special will waste no time racing westward to ... (more)

Pure Santa Fe. Even though BN power is beginning to appear on numerous trains, this 80 car eastbound is resplendent in its native dress as it heads down off the Arizona Divide between Flagstaff an... (more)

This older ES44DC has just crossed Beaver St. and goes West to climb the last bit of hill before reaching the Arizona Divide at 7300 feet.

Two of BNSF's newest Tier 4 locomotives and two warn out Dash-9 locomotives pull a heavy Atlanta, GA to Los Angeles, CA intermodal train over the 7,000 ft high summit of the Arizona Divide as it ... (more)

After following the BNSF Transcon from Kingman to Flagstaff most of the day and seeing only a handful of trains under dark, dreary skies and full blown heavy rain showers, I arrived in Flagstaff j... (more)

Looking down from Mars Hill on a chilly spring night, Amtrak's Southwest Chief #3, westbound servers from Chicago to Los Angeles, preforms its station work in Flagstaff as the rear of an eastbound... (more)

February 3rd, 2016, would be one of the coldest days Flagstaff has had in nearly 30 years. When I got up, it was -7 degrees at 7AM. By the time I was trackside, it warmed up to zero degrees. On th... (more)

BNSF 8522 leads the S-CLOOIG3-28B through Parks, AZ under Flagstaff's San Francisco Peaks.

After a fresh snowfall in Flagstaff, a stack train snakes its way through downtown.

A pair of GE motors shove the rear of a 115 car long grain train over the snowy Arizona Divide at the outskirts of Flagstaff. If you look towards the curve, you can see the mid helper units that a... (more)

Running as light power westward, BNSF 525 and BNSF 3175 head towards Bellemont to pick up a locomotive that was set out a couple days before as it passes the iconic station in Downtown Flagstaff.

They birds didn't go far enough south... Okay, I know that raven don't migrate, but it adds to the photo! Anyways, a 2x2 Logistic Park Chicago stack train battles up the grade towards the 7... (more)

Snow begins to fall, again, in Flagstaff as a westbound Z-train chugs up the 1.3 percent grade of the Arizona Divide. The night before, the city of Flagstaff received nearly ten inches and would g... (more)