Arizona Eastern Railway Charter
On April 5 & 6, 2009, the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum operated a charter that covered the Arizona Eastern Railway (former Southern Pacific) in Arizona and New Mexico. (Page 1 of 2.)
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On Sunday, April 5th, our riders met at Bowie, Arizona, to catch a bus to our train at Claypool, Arizona. While waiting to board, Union Pacific provided plenty of action such as this eastbound stack train. |
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Our train was parked in the Transfer Yard at Claypool,
with the old copper mine and facilities on the hillside above.
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Just before our departure, the crew on AZER 2171 came down off the hill after working the copper operation. |
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Our first runby of the day took place near the old
station at Hamm in the canyons north of Globe.
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Our next runby was on the street running trackage in Globe. |
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After the runby, Domino's delivered lunch to the Globe
station where we parked to meet the regular "Copper Spike"
excursion train.
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You can see the equipment we used - AZER locomotive 2503, a full-length dome (RPCX510), and former IC lounge car "Calumet Club." We are doing a runby above the San Carlos River valley near Dili, Arizona. |
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Closer to Naches, we perform our last runby of the
day. After this, we made a run to Bowie for the night.
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All photos this page by Barton Jennings.