Flagstaff, AZ

[ezdays]

A few days ago, Peggy and I went up to Sedona for the day. We normally drive up Oak Creek Canyon and spend some time in Flagstaff. Here's a few pictures I took of some of the sights around there.

We don't get to see snow often in the Phoenix area, but here's a shot of Humphry's Peak, just north of Flagstaff:
   
Here are a few shots of the Flagstaff station located along the infamous Route 66
           
Here's an engine that sits besides the station:
   
They get about four trains through here every hour, here's a typical one:
       
A shot of downtown looking across Route 66 from the station. I'd have fun modeling these:
   
Heading up towards the Snow bowl is this:
   
Here's a sign on a restaurant, it's hard to read from this distance, but it says, "Late for the Train"
   
Oh, here's a shot of the red rocks around Sedona:
   

[nachoman]

Great photos, Don. Here are a few more historic photos of logging around flagstaff, including many of the 2-8-0 you saw near the train station:

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[Ralph]

That's beautiful country! I've been to Sedona and Flagstaff once several years ago in October. We worked our way from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon. A couple of days before we got there Flagstaff had a 12 inch snowstorm. We saw a number of trucks that had skidded off the road a couple days earlier and were still there. I love Sedona. Amazing place!

Ralph

[e-paw]

That's a very cool place. The station platform gives you a great place to watch trains.

[Sumpter250]

the link below, has the history of this loco.
I like articulated steam !

http://loggingmallets.railfan.net/list/h...mmond6.htm

[TrainNut]

You see that a lot of these locomotive travel a great distance when sold from company to company. This one started out in Oregon and eventually made it as far as Arizona. Typically, back in the day, how would a locomotive be transported? In modern times, I've seen them transported via flat bed truck and flat car train. Back when the restrictions weren't as tight, did they drive them from the old company to the new company?

[nachoman]

You see that a lot of these locomotive travel a great distance when sold from company to company. This one started out in Oregon and eventually made it as far as Arizona. Typically, back in the day, how would a locomotive be transported? In modern times, I've seen them transported via flat bed truck and flat car train. Back when the restrictions weren't as tight, did they drive them from the old company to the new company?

If it could fit on a flatcar, it was probably placed on a flatcar. That would work for narrow gauge and other small or derelict locomotives. Larger steam locomotives I have heard were towed on their own wheels with the siderods removed.

[cn nutbar]

Excellent pictures Don,brought back fond memories of a vacation my wife and I took in beautiful Arizona many years ago.Here's a shot of the Flagstaff station

[Empirebuilder]

Excellent pictures Don,brought back fond memories of a vacation my wife and I took in beautiful Arizona many years ago.Here's a shot of the Flagstaff station

Don't cha' mean a shot of the roof of the flagstaff station

[MasonJar]

You see that a lot of these locomotive travel a great distance when sold from company to company. This one started out in Oregon and eventually made it as far as Arizona. Typically, back in the day, how would a locomotive be transported? In modern times, I've seen them transported via flat bed truck and flat car train. Back when the restrictions weren't as tight, did they drive them from the old company to the new company?

If it could fit on a flatcar, it was probably placed on a flatcar. That would work for narrow gauge and other small or derelict locomotives. Larger steam locomotives I have heard were towed on their own wheels with the siderods removed.

That's how a lot of them were towed to the scrap yard to be cut up...

Andrew

[Will_Annand]

Don, great photos. Love the steamers, even those Halloween coloured Diesels look OK.
Thanks for sharing.