The Northern Lights were visible in many parts of the United States on the night of Oct. 10th, 2024. Here in Arizona, the lights were barely visible with the naked eye, but would show up on camera... (more)

Stacks from Long Beach, CA to Memphis, TN negotiates the tight curves of Crozier Canyon as the sound of three GE prime movers battling the grade echo throughout the canyon.

The sights and sounds of a summer thunderstorm have been silenced by the powerful roar of EMD and GE prime movers as they grind away on wet steel rail. Over 17,000 tons of North Antelope Mine coal... (more)

Freshly fallen snow has blanket Crozier Canyon as the North Bay, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z8 hustles 4,100' of LTL/UPS cargo across the snowy landscape of northern Arizona.

A load grain train (operating with a 4x3x2 power configuration) rolls into the sag at Pica before making a run up Yampai Hill. Before this, the grain train came to a stop at East Pica to let the Z... (more)

The hot Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train waste no time making track speed up the more than 2% grade of Tehachapi Pass as it snakes through the curves of Allard. This train had to stopped... (more)

Late night fog starts to roll in over Tehachapi Pass as the headlights, and ETD, from a northbound BNSF train illuminate hillside of Marcel.

Monsoon season has been exciting so far this year in Northern Arizona. This past Tuesday, another monsoon storm rolled through Valentine. It produced thunderous skies for most of the evening. As t... (more)

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)

A Barstow to Tulsa manifest train leaves the Needles area as spring rain shower forms over the Mohave Valley area; seen from Park Moabi. With the division point changing to the state line, is sect... (more)

Highball the Roll-by... Dusk has settled in and the temperature drops at the summit of Goffs Hill; located in the eastern Mojave Desert. Here, a Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA intermodal tr... (more)

A pair of BNSF locomotives bring up the rear of an empty coal train, bound for mines of Wyoming's Powder River Basin, as they race across Barr Lake near Brighton, CO.

Record snowfall was seen across the state of Arizona last week providing for unique scenes. In Kingman, reports were up to 13 inches of snowfall. Here, three GE motors ease their way into Kingman ... (more)

A hot shot intermodal train races down Goffs Hill, through Arrowhead Jct, as it prepares to overtake a stack train at Ibis before reaching the crew's final destination of Needles, Calif.

Thanksgiving dinner is about to be served as the non-stop parade of BNSF trains roll pass our Crozier Canyon homestead. Here, a westbound double stack train for the ports of Los Angeles meets an e... (more)