After a run across the Mojave Desert and crew change in Needles, CA, the 1073 East behind a pair of Heritage I units and a Warbonnet cross the Colorado River and enter Arizona, beginning the long ... (more)

Racing west into Arizona, into the sunset, BNSF 6188 leads past the beautiful cliffs at Lupton, AZ. The Navajo sandstone forms straddle the AZ/NM border here.

The conductor and engineer of Copper Basin Railway’s OT-1 ore train shuttle talk to a mechanical employee as they fuel up their locomotives at Hayden, Arizona, on April 20, 2017.

Power for Copper Basin Railway’s Smelter Job switches in the yard at Hayden, Arizona, as seen from CBRY EMD GP39 No. 505 leading ore train OT-1 that is ready to depart on April 20, 2017. Locomot... (more)

What a beautiful sight to see the rebirth of the red and silver paint scheme. Was so fun to be track-side during this era. Four B40-8W and a B40-8 rolling through West Flagstaff. (Tom Ellis photo)

On the afternoon of October 28, 2020, Freeport-McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2 locomotives chant loudly curving through corral cut while climbing the steep three to five percent grade from the Arizona Easte... (more)

ATSF freight east of the Colorado river entering the desert of Arizona with the last sun rays

A loaded windmill blade train descends down Kingman Canyon as the sounds of dynamic motors whine down the 1.6% grade of main track one. On main two, a Q LACLPC6 charges up the grade as it continue... (more)

An eastbound intermodal train rises out of the sag coming into Winslow, Arizona behind four GE locomotives, including one leased Citirail ES44AC. The San Francisco Peaks stand tall in the backgrou... (more)

The sun peaks through creating some interesting lighting as BNSF 4017 runs eastbound out of East Williams Jct.

A light blanket of snow covers the former sectiion of ATSF transcontinental at Daze,, AZ where the 7999 leads the Phoenix/westbound. When the Crookton Cutoff opened this section of track was kept ... (more)

Hill Turn The third Freeport McMoran run up the mountain to Morenci leaves Clifton, Arizona. The train made up of loaded sulphur, acid & empty concentrate gondolas puts on quite a show ... (more)

In late Jan snow falls all the way down to Drake, AZ as the 7250 leads the Phoenix/westbound train over Big Hell Canyon on the BNSF Phoenix Sub.

On the eve of October 25, 2020, an Arizona Eastern Railway freight operating on the railroad’s Miami to Bowie line slowly trundles down Pine Street in Globe, Arizona.

Almost Heaven... Blue Ridge Mountains...

While these Country Roads took me home to the Arizona Northland, these blue mountains are not the ones that this lash-up of power would... (more)