A westbound Santa Fe intermodal train crosses the Colorado River at Topock.

A Santa Fe Local on the Clarkdale Branch Horse shoe curve. This is now the Verde Canyon Railway. This photo was taken from my friend Dons Airplane

BNSF's H-BELBAR races westbound through Topock, Arizona in a stunning desert sunrise. Well worth the 3am alarm.

The UP 7986 rounds the bend into perfect golden glow just before CP East Shawmut as her 15k foot train trails behind. ISILB1-25 (Intermodal-Santa Teresa, NM-Long Beach)

After dropping off cars at the Pig Farm and the storage tracks on the branch line, the Apache heads for home with a classic C420 leading the way.

With a hefty train from the BNSF in Holbrook, a trio of Apache Railway products thunder south.

On a gorgeous morning in Snowflake, the Apache Railway prepares its outbound train for the BNSF in Holbrook. Can't go wrong with Alcos!

A trio of Apache's finest make way south out of Holbrook, AZ with interchange from the BNSF bound for Snowflake.

UP 9093 slowly climbs the Shawmut grade with its 3x1x0 manifest. UP 1943, "The Spirit of the Union Pacific" was the Mid-train DPU.

A pair of ponies race around the top bend of the Shawmut grade as they drop downhill in the middle of the Sonoran desert.

Its around 3am in the middle of know along one of the coolest land locked railroads there is without a sound to be heard besides the wind blowing across the vast openness and the occasional passin... (more)

The sun has long since set on the days of the BMLP but 12 days before the railroad would run their last train, it was business as normal with 3 trains running a day to and from the mine. Here near... (more)

Opened in 1962, the Cholla Power plant is one of the last remaining coal fired power plants in Arizona. Jointly owned by Arizona Public Service and PacifiCorp, the power plant consists of four uni... (more)

In a view from the cab of trailing unit EMD GP39CLC No. 505, eastbound Copper Basin Railway’s OT-1 ore train is about to thread Tunnel 2 near Ray Junction, Arizona, on April 20, 2017.

A manned geometry train slowly makes its way across the Colorado River at Topock, Ariz. as it prepares to stop and meet with M.o.W crews and other management personnel.