Arizona Eastern's night job out of Lordsburg climbs the dry creek bed up Owl Canyon. Years of washouts caused many relocations and retaining walls. A 2.19% ruling grade and tight curves can chal... (more)

Arizona Eastern's morning job lifts a heavy cut of cars around the horseshoe curve after just exiting Tunnel 5 on the 2.12 percent climb out of Clifton. The train is made up of Copper concentrate ... (more)

What looks like a scene from the late 90s, BNSF 4700 leads a Belen, NM to Barstow, CA manifest train round the curve of Hackberry. As PTC is being installed on more locomotives, the iconic colors ... (more)

An outbound Freeport McMoRan train has negotiated the railroad’s steep grade from Morenci, Arizona, and approaches the junction and interchange yard with Arizona Eastern Railway at Clifton on th... (more)

A Freeport McMoRan train works up the steep grade between Clifton and Morenci, Arizona, approaching Corral Cut on October 28, 2020. Lead locomotives FMI No. 59 is former Rio Grande GP40 No. 3075 t... (more)

Class Portrait

Lined up in the Williams Coach Yard, we find a working example of every class of locomotive power on today's Grand Canyon Railway (with the exception of its ex-A... (more)

UP 7415 and UP 6518 race a westbound doublestack through Benson, Arizona.

The crew on the new San Pedro & Southwestern GP-30 2426 bring their train into their small yard after delivering cars to the Union Pacific in Benson, Arizona.

A quintet of Freeport McMoRan EMD 4-axle locomotives lug a train up the steep grade of the railroad’s line from the Arizona Eastern’s interchange yard at Clifton to Morenci, Arizona, on Octobe... (more)

After switching cars at the smelter of Freeport McMoRan’s Miami Operations near Globe, Arizona, and making up a good portion of an outbound train in the upper yard in the facilities, an Arizona ... (more)

GCRY 237, a former Amtrak F40PHR, approaches Willaha on the return trip to Williams. Willaha is a remote crossing that is home to a siding and an abandoned building.

A trip of GEs, led by BNSF ES44DC No. 7644 lead an eastbound rack train through the late evening sun, approaching West Crookton on the Santa Fe Seligman Subdivision on April 5, 2019.

Arizona Eastern Railway’s turn operating from South Siding to Clifton and return is entering a rock cut just west of South Siding, Arizona, as it drops downgrade toward the Freeport McMoRan inte... (more)

Freeport McMoRan No. 59 leads a third train up the hill from Clifton, Arizona, after quickly picking up the last remaining interchange tonnage from Arizona Eastern Railway on October 22, 2020. FMI... (more)

An extremely late Los Angeles, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train races into Winslow for a crew change with the San Francisco mountain range in the background. This train is running 37 hours behind ... (more)