Power on Freeport McMoRan’s first train to the Arizona Eastern’s interchange yard at Clifton, Arizona, is at the very end of track, to leave enough headroom so FMI’s second train that is following... (more)

UP 7829 in the lead of a heavy WB grain pulling the 1.4% grade through Cochise at 14 mph

Three GE motors hustle a 113 car empty grain shuttle up the 1.4% grade of Kingman Canyon as the train tackles the desert landscape of the northwestern Arizona.

A heavy LA Harbor bound stack train descends down the steep grade into Kingman, Ariz. as it enters Slaughterhouse Canyon.

Five GE's lead a hot Q-LANY on the eastend of Flagstaff. ATSF 510, 526, 513, and one other B40-8W with a B40-8 on the rear. Pictured underneath the San Francisco peaks of Flagstaff, Arizona.

Three nice looking B40-8W's 511, 501, 554 roll past what looks like a majestic lake with a hot JB Hunt train. In reality it's a deposit of spring run off at Challender, Arizona. That will dry up a... (more)

KGTR's FTRX 1315 is tied down on the main with a train for the weekend as the 1542 waits in the "Loco Track" for electrical work that has yet to be scheduled.

UP 6479 West starts its climb up the steep 1.7% grade out of a small sag between Chamiso and the summit at Mescal.

Freeport McMoRan EMD GP38-2 No. 9 sits in the yard at Clifton, Arizona, on October 28, 2020. The locomotive is specially-painted to honor our United States military veterans, and is named “The Mor... (more)

UP 2767 leads a manifest downgrade through the curves at Sibyl

UP 8942 in the lead of a long and heavy WB manifest as it passes downgrade over the Cienega Creek bridge

Shadows begin to rapidly grow long as the autumn sun dips below the horizon as a westbound intermodal train, bound for the ports of Northern California, races around the 70 MPH curve of Antares. L... (more)

The sun has just came up, and it's going to be a good day. The sky is clear, and the Santa Fe is running beautiful trains.

An Arizona Eastern train switches boxcars used to ship copper cathodes and anodes at the smelter of Freeport McMoRan’s Miami Operations near Globe, Arizona, on October 25, 2020. When they are fini... (more)

What a time to be a railfan, the return of the Red and Silver was fantastic. An A-B-B-A set of GP60M's