An extremely rare opportunity occurred on the morning of February 23rd, snow stuck overnight in Vail, AZ leaving a beautiful snow covered morning. UP 8098 leads a light manifest EB through Pantano
UP 2706 gets clearance to proceed up the steep grade to mescal as a huge winter storm hits Vail, they where running trains 1 at a time though the creek.
After snowing all night in southern AZ UP 8572 leads a long manifest up the grade to the summit in Mescal. The bridge here in Vail rarely ever sees this much snow.