Grand Canyon Raillway 4960 pulls its northbound train into Grand Canyon Village at the wye to disembark passengers at the station, bringing tourists a chance to see a piece of railroad history bef... (more)

There is a certain anticipation that comes when the pieces to a photo start coming together. The only part I could control was position and exposure, but as I watched an absolutely amazing sunset ... (more)

The 203 job approaches South Siding with some outbound cars from FMI.

Known as the Clarkdale Arizona Central Railroad for freight and Verde Canyon Railroad for passenger, this ex-ATSF branch was also once the Verde Valley Railway. It is estimated they carry 1500-20... (more)

FTRX 1315 was painted on Kingman Terminal property, now with a fresh coat of blue paint, sporting Veterans decals and will be heading to the new Merced County Central Valley Railroad in Central Ca... (more)

Caught this very dirty UP GE power on a long stack train at the Marsh Station Road bridge in Pantano. This bridge is next to I-10 near Vail and provides great morning photos. The grass at this spo... (more)

"Is That a Dash 8?" A Union Pacific autorack train rolling east through the small city of Maricopa, AZ with a low-ditchlight AC44 in the lead. Looming in the background are the Seven Mile ... (more)

The 600 series of Dash9s were some of the last units painted in "original" warbonnet colors before BNSF lettering intruded upon the nose and sides. Here a set of them with a GP60 trailin... (more)

Tied down and crewless, a rare BNSF leader on UP trackage sits tied down at Germann siding in Queen Creek on a nice March afternoon.

Rebuilt GP30 No. 1272, known as a GP30u, that had gone through repainting in the horrid SPSF merger scheme and was restored in proper colors leads a local freight west out of the sag between Chale... (more)

FXE 4005 South on point of the daily Tucson to Nogales manifest sits tied down at Santa Cruz

UP 1988 makes its way West through Cochise

It was getting a little stressful watching the shadows as MEWWC came west just before the sun set with a colorful trio of units passing a neat warehouse on the left.

ILXSA passes West Kolb as Eric from Central Penn Rail Productions films their passage on the left. One of 75 or so Ferromex units on horsepower hour payback to UP at the time is second out.

AAMML crosses Cienega Creek with a train of autos bound for Southern California.