Grand Canyon Railway's 2-8-2 steam locomotive #4960 slowly moves through the Kaibab National Forest near Quivero on its return trip from the Grand Canyon. In less than a mile, the 4960 will stop t... (more)

Deep in the "sticks" near Williams, the peaceful atmosphere of birds singing is broken up by the sounds of General Electric motors roaring as they battle up the western slop of the Arizo... (more)

A rare NS SD70M-2 is the leader of the Slaton, TX to Barstow, CA manifest as it rolls through Flagstaff during an early afternoon day. In the background, a monsoon rain storm hits the northern are... (more)

Inbound and Outbound Just east of Flagstaff, Ariz. two Los Angeles Harbor trains are seen meeting at the S-curve of Cosnino. Luck played a huge factor in this shot as the head end of an eas... (more)

As the sun begins to set over the Seligman area, a high priority BNSF train for Texas is fighting hard up the Arizona Divide near Crookton.

A BNSF GE Dash-9, still sporting the red & silver Santa Fe paint scheme, rumbles out of Crozier Canyon along Route 66 as it approaches Valentine.

One of BNSF's dirty EMD SD70ACe leads an empty crude oil train down the Arizona Divide out of the sag at Darling. Just recently, BNSF has been running crude oil trains along the southern transcon.... (more)

With the setting sun, a summer monsoon storm, and four General Electric locomotives working hard; the BNSF Seligman Subdivision can offer some of the most breathtaking views for rail photographers... (more)

At the Nelson lime plate, the Kingman 091 local sets out cars on the spur track. The 091 runs out of Kingman and drops and picks up cars at the planet and return them to Kingman. From there, a man... (more)

Three of BNSF's new GE ET44C4s (BNSF 3921, 3945, 3929) battle up the 1.5 percent grade near Crozier Canyon, Ariz. as they slowly make the climb over Yampai Hill with 8,200 feet of intermodal cargo... (more)

Always Expect a Train.. Highway 30 follows Union Pacific's Transcon mainline across the state of Nebraska and along this line, there a lot of railroading crossings. In Lexington, there is r... (more)

All is quite in the heart of Valentine. Soon, the silence will be broken by the sounds of dynamic brakes and the power of a K5HL horn. A green light at the signal at East Valentine indicates a wes... (more)

Three GE units lead a Z7 through the snow leftover from a New Years Day snow storm that rocked the northern Arizona region.

Twilight begins to set along the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide as the former Santa Fe 199, now BNSF's Z WSPNBY9, races up the grade with ease as the winter air temperatures drop to below fre... (more)

After spending Christmas in Los Angeles, I began my journey back to Valentine. Before leaving, I learned that a westbound manifest had a solid Canadian Pacific consist on it was going to pass by t... (more)