Arizona Eastern B40-8 #4009 exits Tunnel #1 with the first train of the morning, bound for the top of the hill at South Siding.

Arizona Eastern B40-8 #4002 rolls past the stunning red rock cliffs of Rattlesnake Canyon with a train for Lordsburg.

Arizona Eastern #4009 rolls across the San Francisco River Bridge in downtown Clifton, AZ.

Arizona Eastern #4009 exits Tunnel #1 with an upgrade train leaving Clifton.

Arizona Eastern B40-8 #4005 carefully descends the 2.5% grade downhill into Clifton, AZ with inbound cars for the Morenci Mine.

Arizona Eastern B40-8s #4009 and #4002 crawl uphill out of Clifton with outbound cars from the massive Morenci smelter, which can be seen in the far background.

Arizona Eastern B-boat #4002 leads the downhill Clifton Switcher through the narrow cut at MP1210. The width of this cut illustrates the narrow gauge heritage of the line.

Arizona Eastern B-boat #4012 sorts empties for at South Siding deep in the Arizona High Desert.

Arizona Eastern B-boat #4012 leads the inbound train from Lordsburg, NM uphill towards Clifton, AZ. This train is struggling up the stiff 2.5% grade out of the Gila River Valley and will soon reac... (more)

Arizona Eastern B-boat #4009 slugs uphill with the morning freight out of Clifton. Soon the train will enter Tunnel 6 and surmount the hill, before tying down the train at South Siding.

The beauty that was the Santa Fe, four locomotives all different. Rolling through the desert landscape, that has it's own unique beauty through out the route.

An amazing mix of power leads H LINLIN back towards Lincoln.

A now in storage BNSF 589 shoving M-CHIGAL out of BNSF’s GM Yard in Hodgkins on the former Santa Fe.

"Outlawed at Modell's" Outlawed Providence & Worcester "CHFP" sits at Modell's on the CSX running track next to Amtak's Hell Gate Line, waiting for the arrival of it's crew. CHFP runs ever... (more)

IRM's "dash 8" sits on station track 1 for the night during diesel weekend .