The former Coos Bay Rail Link GP30s currently "stored" on the new industrial spur off the Ennis Sub in El Mirage have recently been re-lettered to MSC with MSXX reporting marks.

The former Coos Bay Rail Link GP30s currently "stored" on the new industrial spur off the Ennis Sub in El Mirage have recently been re-lettered to MSC with MSXX reporting marks.

UP 5986 leads an empty grain train from AZ Grain to Northfield, MN through the tight curves and cuts in Cienega Creek

Cloudy and rainy weather is moving in, but not until some final sun lights up Arizona Eastern Railway’s Clifton turn departing Clifton, Arizona, on October 26, 2020. The train has tied up traffi... (more)

An empty vehicle train, bound for El Paso, TX, crosses Colorado River, and the Arizona/ California State Line, at Topock on a chilly November morning in the Mohave River Valley.

A Freeport McMoRan train curves into corral cut approaching Corral Road grade crossing as it works hard climbing the steep three to five percent grade between Clifton and Morenci, Arizona, on Octo... (more)

Rolling downgrade through serpentine trackage into Clifton Arizona, is a set of Freeport McMoRan power on October 23, 2020. The locomotives will pick up interchange cars left by the Arizona Easter... (more)

A view of a coal train unloading at the Apache Power plant in Cochise AZ

CRAZY Steep Non Compensated Grade! Blasting up a desert mountain at walking speed with 5 Geeps and 22 loads of sulphur and acid! I have done some research to figure out just how steep this... (more)

A southbound Arizona Eastern freight climbs the grade out of Clifton, Arizona, as it threads Tunnel 1 on the afternoon of October 22, 2020.

A Freeport McMoran Hill Turn slides down the steep grade between Corral Cut and Clifton. The grade here varies between 3.5-4.2%, when compensated for curvature the grade is a equivalent to almost ... (more)

A duo of B40-8s lift a cut of cars from the Freeport McMoran interchange at Clifton Arizona up the 2+% grade towards Stock Pen Tank. The unusual concrete bridge takes the Black Hills Byway acros... (more)

UP 1111 with UP 6290 leads a long and heavy WB stack train downgrade through the tight curves at Cavot

NS 1182 snakes its way downgrade through Sibyl

Freeport-McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2 locomotives work hard on a train of loaded acid tank cars curving through corral cut while climbing the steep three to five percent grade from the Arizona Eastern Ra... (more)