As the early morning light swings around the hill sides of Valentine, AZ, a Kansas City, KS to Barstow, CA manifest rumbles down the tracks between the CP's of East and West Valentine.
The headlights of the BNSF 6967 west get turned to full blast by the new crew that just boarded this S LPCSCO2 at Valentine, after the previous crewed worked their twelve hours. This was the six d... (more)
BNSF EMD power leads this Brownwood, TX to Barstow, CA high priority freight out of Crozier Canyon on the Seligman Sub.
A Memphis, TN to Los Angeles, CA silver Z- train exits Crozier Canyon as the engineer carefully controls the train down the 1.4 percent grade of Yampai Hill.
Westbound BNSF intermodal train near Valentine
A quartet of blue and yellow Santa Fe units lead a piggyback train through Arizona's Crozier Canyon on October 7, 1995.
Westbound Chicago to Richmond, CA intermodal passing through Valentine
A GE B40-8 and EMD SD39 combo lead Santa Fe's BATE1-07 train through Crozier Canyon east of Valentine, Arizona on October 7, 1995.
With the shadows creeping closer and closer to the tracks, a westbound KCKBAR manifest races through Valentine, AZ before making one more crew change at Needles, CA.
With NS and UP power tow, a Kansas City, KC to Barstow, CA manifest glides down the grade into Kingman as it rolls through Valentine at last light with a monsoon storm in the background.
A westbound BNSF LA Harbor bound stack train accelerates through Valentine, AZ
A westbound BNSF stack train is gathering speed after negotiating a number of twenty five mph curves back in Crozier Canyon passing through Valentine
Working up the slight grade east of Valentine, 4 units lead this eastbound freight towards Crozier Canyon.
Just east of Valentine, a westbound freight exits Crozier Canyon. Historic Route 66 is seen on the far left and was a great way to see the American southwest on my first trip there.
