On Sunday, Feb. 20th I set off at the crack of doom for Kingman, Arizona, to spend a few days shooting trains in the canyon. Just as I was approaching Kingman, on Interstate 40, it started to snow, and got quite heavy. As I passed over BNSF, there were headlights to the east, and I got in to position to catch it in heavy snow. A little while later another westbound showed up, and as the power was going out of the frame to the west, eastbound power came in to the frame, a perfect meet! The snow didn't last long, and was gone off the ground quite quickly. A good day, I saw 32 trains in 7 hours. Next day wasn't quite as busy, and the weather wasn't as good, but still a busy day. I did see some westbounds on the normally eastbound number two track though. Next day saw single track working through the canyon, the dispatcher would send 4 or 5 westbounds, then 4 or 5 eastbounds. Another busy day! Most of the power was from GE, I only saw 5 EMD's, plus a pair of GP60M's, still in (shabby) warbonnet on the local out to the steel plant just west of the canyon. Altogether a decent trip!
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