ZMNLA races west in the midst of a parade of westbound traffic on the Gila Sub.
ZMNLA passes a group of hikers in the otherwise desolate landscape east of Tucson.
MWCFW works upgrade out of Vail with a long train of manifest bound for Texas and points east.
A couple SD70Ms and an SD60M lead a 2IDILB at Cienega Creek.
At Cienega Creek, the an extra ILXMN stack train rounds the bend and shows off its length in the background.
A Freeport McMoRan train drops downgrade approaching Clifton, Arizona, on October 23, 2020. The train is delivering interchange traffic from FMI’s huge copper mine operation in Morenci to Arizon... (more)
At near last light, the CBRY Unit Train comes onto the Ray Branch as they near their destination at the Ray Mine.
The UT heads off the Hayden Spur as they prepare to follow OT-1 west to the mine at Ray.
The "Unit Train" runs lite to the Hayden smelter to pick up their train for Ray.
Empty ore OT-1 heads through Kearny with a GP40 leader. That milepost on the right marks rail distance from San Francisco, a holdover from the SP era.
OT-1 thunders eastbound through Kearny with a loaded ore train.
OT-1 departs Ray under ominous skies.
The Magma Local returns east as they pass through Kelvin on the way back from the UP interchange at Magma Jct. One of the original GP39s assigned to this region is on the point.
Copper Basin's OT-1 ore train heads west through Kearny.
Traffic stacks up at Clifton as AZER 203 finishes their switching and departs town.
