ALCo's In The Desert: After picking up a pretty sizable train train at Holbrook from the BNSF, a couple of sharp looking ALCo products hustle the train at track speed through the beautiful ... (more)

ATSF 4-8-4 No.3751 with the Goodhart Productions Photo Charter to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon comes to a stop at the classic Station. In conjunction with the NRHS the Grand Canyon Special wa... (more)

Days after the Thanksgiving snow storm, the area of Ash Fork is still covered as the hotshot Alliance, TX to Phoenix, AZ Z-train makes its way through town.

EMD switchers both working at automotive facility. An EMD SW1 #NIS 202 built in 1949 and SW7 #JTPX1215 built in 1950's...still in service by 2007..!!

A long way from home. As I was exploring the local area around the Grand Canyon Railway Depot in Williams, AZ, I came upon something I really didn't expect to see. There, right in front o... (more)

With only minutes of daylight left, BNSF 7511 races west leading the Atlanta, GA to San Bernardino, CA Z Train through East Perrin, AZ on September 8th, 2019.

Grand Canyon Railway #29, up close and personal. Here's an in-your-face look at one of the finest-looking, standard-gauge Consolidation locomotives left in existence, Grand Canyon Railway #... (more)

Mid-afternoon charge over Miller's Wash. Sporting one of the classiest paint schemes in all of tourist railroading, Grand Canyon Railway Consolidation #29 continues her mid-afternoon dash t... (more)

Southbound at Willaha. Trailing a dark plume of oil smoke, Grand Canyon Railway #29 charges through Willaha (approx MP 37.7) with a Trains Magazine Photo Charter, headed for Williams, AZ at... (more)

The Canyon to The Canyon

It might surprise some to find that to get to The Grand Canyon, the journey is anything but flat. The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway found this... (more)

Smokescape: Land of the 40 mph run-by. Some 15 miles south of Coconino Canyon, GCR Locomotive #29 and her Passenger Special are now out on the high plains, where the tracks are super-straig... (more)

Steamscape: Coconino Canyon. Just about 7 miles south of the Grand Canyon Village, Locomotive #29 finds herself deep in in the piney forests of Conconino Canyon. This canyon features a win... (more)

AT&SF Archaeology. Framed by the ruins of a decaying Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Section House at Willaha Siding, Grand Canyon Railway Locomotive #29 highballs north to the Grand Canyon V... (more)

Grand Canyon Special. Grand Canyon Railway Consolidation #29 is making track speed with a 5-car special train as she rounds the bend 2 miles south of Willaha Siding, on the northbound run t... (more)