Amtrak’s Southwest Chief flies through Darling, Arizona, after crossing over in front of an eastbound Santa Fe freight at the Darling crossovers on April 19, 1990. Soon, once Amtrak gets past another pair of signals, the freight from Phoenix will follow.

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An eastbound Union Pacific autorack train curves through cactus and the green desert plants of springtime at Shawmut, Arizona, on March 30, 2010. The roadbed in the foreground is the former alignment of the railroad before this more gentle curve was built on this section of UP’s former Southern Pacific Sunset Route.

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Copper Basin’s unit train is westbound at Tunnel 3 East of Riverside, Arizona, on March 18, 2004.

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On March 14, 2002, the Grand Canyon Railway train has arrived at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The passenger train is led by a matched set of Alco-designed Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) FPA-4s built in the late 1950s.

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Santa Fe SD45 No. 5390 leads an eastbound freight east of Flagstaff, Arizona on April 20, 1990.

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