The first rays of sunlight on 11/24/12 glints off the side of Amtrak train #2, the Sunset Limited, as it races eastbound at Eloy,AZ on 11/24/12. Picacho Peak is seen in front of the train.

A Z trains with racks and stacks from Global 4, IL to Phoenix, AZ passes westbound through the small town of Corona,NM on 11/30/12.

The sun has risen 5 minutes previous as a 16 minute late train #2, the Sunset Limited, races eastbound at Eloy,AZ on 11/24/12. If the station stop at Maricopa and its 2 car platform wouldn't have ... (more)

A westbound UP stack train passes one of the many Sonoran Cactus in the Shawmut area as it heads towards Gila Bend to meet 3 eastbounds on 11/24/12.

Sonoran cactus bathe in the desert sun as a eastbound UP Z train passes by at Shawmut,AZ on 11/24/12.

An eastbound UP auto/stack train passes a water tank, an SP relic, at Maricopa,AZ on 11/24/12.

A UP stack train heads east for Dallas,TX as it passes beneath the famed Cienega Creek bridge east of Vail,AZ on 11/23/12. The tree's leaves in the creek bottom are finally starting to turn, even ... (more)

On Black Friday 2012, UP's hot Z train from Atlanta,GA to Los Angeles,CA hauls some Tropicana orange juice and other goods westbound as it crosses over the famed Cienega Creek bridge east of Vail,... (more)

The first Western Fuels coal train to load at El Segundo Mine in over 2 years is topping over the 1.5% grade out of the mine as it just cleared restricted limits Hospah Jct on 11/26/12. For the ne... (more)

Just after sunset, a BNSF eastbound Z from LA hustles christmas packages and other goods east towards Chicago at control point Guana, just west of Encino,NM 11/30/12.

Z trains from competing railroads "race" towards the LA Basin as BNSF's Z-KCKLAC7-29A passes over UP's ZG4CI-29 at Vaughn,NM on 11/30/12. Peak season is on as both Z trains are filled with christm... (more)

The smoke show the engineer put on for us lingers in the air as the Holbrook Turn shoves to the mainline from the Snowflake Branch on 9/20/12.

As seen at Casa,CO, Amtrak #3 , led by Phase 2 Heritage locomotive #66, races through a snow squall as it quickly approaches its next station stop and crew change point of La Junta, CO on 11/2/11.

A BNSF westbound manifest has just passed the siding of Antelope as it heads towards the waning sunlight and a late uncut crop of spring wheat on 8/1/12.

2 minutes before sunset, a golden glint lights the side of a BNSF eastbound Q train as it approaches Rio Puerco,NM on 9/19/12.