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November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
Y'all are probably tired of yet another shot from Kingman Canyon. And maybe I was too.
This was the last train I shot in the canyon that day. I would have liked a better spot but racing up the hill after seeing it got me this one. ( I don't like cutting off the back of the train but this is a big curve and I got up the hill too late to include the whole curve). I hadn't seen many SD75's before this day and having this one leading was a treat. Remembering that there were 17 trains was clearly incorrect. This is the 21st train posted so far from that day. A few were skipped and a few were missed. Needing to be in Phoenix in the morning and wanting another try at a shot of this eastbound in the late afternoon, I headed east toward Hackberry and left an amazing day in the canyon behind.
November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
A double stack train drifts downhill through an S curve in Kingman Canyon
November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
One of the shots that had eluded me on previous visits to Kingman was an eastbound going past the Rt 66 water tower in town. So I made sure to get there with one of the first eastbounds. And it had a fairly new SD75 leading a box car train.
This is the former Kingman Alberta Wheat Pool elevator peeking over a rise. The elevator was moved to it's present location from the town of Kingman, Alberta which is about 3 township roads to the north. This was taken on the evening of August 2nd, 2010 as part of the Alberta Wooden Grain Elevator Survey 2010.
For something entertaining, this is a video of a grain elevator move:
On a chilly Presidents' Day morning, BNSF Z WSPLAC7 13L snakes around the curve in Kingman Canyon behind a mix of BNSF and GECX power. We wound up inadvertently following this train west all the way to Ludlow.
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November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
Near the east end of the main section of Kingman Canyon just around the curve from town is a westbound double stack with 3 GP60's and an SD40. This is about where the road from town comes to the track. I had stopped to check if there was a good view and this guy quietly showed up cautiously coming down the hill.
Eastbound BNSF San Bernardino-Willow Springs train Z-SBDWSP8-03P charges upgrade through the Kingman Canyon. Most of the intermodal trains on the southern transcon seem to be powered by five six-axle units, as here.
November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
The canyon west of Kingman is most photographed but there is a short canyon just to the east of town also. When this mixed single level/double stack eastbound with older power showed up before I could get back to the western canyon, i went east to catch this view.
November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
Still too early to shoot in the canyon, here is a westbound stack train with 3 GE 6 motors out in the desert west of Kingman.
Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale was ordered to build a federal wagon road across the 35th Parallel. His secondary orders were to test the feasibility of the use of camels as pack animals in the southwestern desert. Beale traveled through the present day Kingman in 1857 surveying the road and in 1859 to build the road which later became part of Highway 66 and Interstate Highway 40. Remnants of the wagon road can still be seen in White Cliffs Canyon in Kingman.
I've only been here once and clearly I need to return!
Another in the seemingly endless parade of intermodal trains heads east on BNSF's Seligman Sub near MP 519X on Main 2. The legendary ex Santa Fe transcon cuts through the short rugged Kingman Canyon just railroad west of that small town that is the seat of Mohave County.
This is a going away shot of the rear DPUs on this train: flic.kr/p/2mY4jcy For a 13 mile stretch between Griffith and Kingman the two main lines do not share the same right of way making for some interesting and fun photo opportunities that can also be challenging if you don't know whether to expect an eastbound or a westbound and are set up on the wrong track. At least if you have DP units facing outward you can make do with almost any train in any direction and sometimes it's even a two for the price of one!
Mornings in Kingman Canyon are times well spent!
Mohave County, Arizona
Sunday May 19, 2012
It’s been a while since I contributed to Thirty Thursday so I’ll start a Santa Fe theme with one today. November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with only shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll add to the album over the next several days.
First shot of the day was the local power sitting west of town. 2722 is a GP30u originally built in 1962 and upgraded at Cleburne in 1983. It was recently in service on the Washington Eastern RR.
November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
As the sun moved around to be off the side of westbounds from high above the canyon, I moved around to the west where the south track was rounding a curve away from the north, thinking that maybe they were done with westbounds for a while. That was wrong as they soon ran a westbound with solid super fleet power but I was rewarded with this eastbound stack train with solid blue & yellow 4 axles including a couple of GP50's leading.
EMRY 907 behind GMTX GP38-2 2233 splits a pair of old Canadian Pacific signals on the Mattawamkeag sub.
November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
Another westbound trailer train ran while I was still out in the desert west of Kingman. This one had 4 4 axles, all facing forward.
Another from the archives I've never shared. I gotta get back out here!
Another in the seemingly endless parade of intermodal trains heads east on BNSF's Seligman Sub near MP 519X on Main 2. The legendary ex Santa Fe transcon cuts through the short rugged Kingman Canyon just railroad west of that small town that is the seat of Mojave County.
The train is passing over a dry wash on a deck girder bridge on Main 2, the higher of the two main tracks here. For a 13 mile stretch between Griffith and Kingman the two main lines do not share the same right of way making for some interesting and fun photo opportunities that can also be challenging if you don't know whether to expect an eastbound or a westbound and are set up on the wrong track.
Mornings in Kingman Canyon are times well spent!
Mojave County, Arizona
Sunday May 19, 2012
Doug Harrop Photography • September 13, 1991
A Santa Fe SD45u leads a westbound train through an area called Harris, just west of downtown Kingman, Arizona. The lower grade main track for eastbound trains is on the south side of the canyon.
Stan Kistler Photo • Doug Harrop Collection • April 9, 1992
A quartet of high horsepower EMD and GE locomotives pull an intermodal train along old Route 66, west of Kingman, Arizona.
An eastbound BNSF manifest grinds upgrade through Kingman Canyon catching a brief bit of sun on an otherwise cloudy morning.
Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale was ordered to build a federal wagon road across the 35th Parallel. His secondary orders were to test the feasibility of the use of camels as pack animals in the southwestern desert. Beale traveled through the present day Kingman in 1857 surveying the road and in 1859 to build the road which later became part of Highway 66 and Interstate Highway 40. Remnants of the wagon road can still be seen in White Cliffs Canyon in Kingman.
November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
As the sun continued to move around, I left the Old trail Rd between the tracks and moved over to Old Route 66 on the west side of the canyon. Before the previously posted eastbound could pass, this westbound led by a GP50 crawled around the curve.
A BNSF intermodal heads west through Kingman Canyon Arizona with a C44-9W leading as thunderstorms make their prescence known in the background.
November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
Remembering that there were 17 trains was clearly incorrect. This is the 20th train posted so far from that day. A few were skipped. I don't remember why I moved back to the road in between the tracks in the middle of the canyon. I would have rather had a better angle to show this cool trio of SD's.
Just outside of the bustling desert town of Kingman, Arizona lies the aptly named Kingman Canyon that the BNSF Seligman Sub runs through. A grade separation occurs here where eastbounds will cling to the canyon walls while westbounds ride low in the valley. With temps climbing already in the morning June sun, a mixed manifest eastbound works its way along the edge of the desert rocks.
Early on the morning of Presidents Day, westbound BNSF M BELBAR1 14A rolls through Kingman Canyon on its way down the hill toward Needles.
November 5, 1995 was quite a day for me on the Santa Fe. It got started when the local country music station played Asleep at the Wheel’s lively version of Get Your Kicks on Rt 66 as I drove through Kingman Arizona on Andy Devine Ave (Rt 66) before sunrise. I had some specific shots around Kingman planned but I didn’t know how true the song would become. By the end of the day, I had made all the planned shots and more. I had been up and down the canyon and east and west to shoot at least 17 different trains. I also didn’t know it would be my last time shooting the Santa Fe before the merger.
I previously posted one shot from that day and have an album with shots from that day. www.flickr.com/photos/crr200/albums/72177720304664608 I’ll be adding to the album over the next several days.
View of another westbound in Kingman Canyon on November 5, 1995. This time from a hill between the split mains. There were times during the day that moving to a new location required some hustle. The trains were that close.
I brought the Northwest Indiana weather with me. I could have driven up to Laughlin and pouted.
Westbound in January of 1995.
An eastbound intermodal train slowly climbs the grade through Kingman Canyon on main track two.
In the moments when a break in traffic on the nearby interstate highway coincided with a lull in the ever-present wind, the prime movers of the four locomotives could be heard long before they appeared in view.
I had allocated five hours of morning daylight in Kingman at the end of my time in Arizona, thinking it would be sufficient to shoot the classic photo locations there. After that time passed in what felt like a blink of the eye, it was apparent that one could spend several days shooting there, and still have barely scratched the surface on the potential great photo angles. The majority of the shots of the high bridges on main two favor early morning light. Unless you have the luck of a steady parade of eastbound trains, you would need at least two mornings to shoot the three bridges in peak lighting conditions. Lesson learned for next year.