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West of Prescott, Arizona, and following along where the Santa Fe tracks went through before they bypassed Prescott entirely.

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My family almost bought a "view lot" in the Iron Springs area just west of Prescott.

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These two shots are from somewhere around Iron Springs.

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Then my wife said "There's a Train down there!" No. Not here. But look. She's right. This is the "Peevine". Look it up on Google if you want to know how it got named that.

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We have caught up with the junction of the old line and the relocation. Santa Fe did a lot of relocation. This is considered a secondary branch line, but is long enough to call a main line. It connects Phoenix to Ask Fork on the trans-continental main line.

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The train has beat us to the overpass. Sigh. I wonder if that's Wayne Wilson in the cab?

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We're about to go under it.

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It also beat us to Skull Valley or Kirkland Junction. I really don't know which town this is.

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We finally get ahead of it far enough to get a good horseshoe curve photo.

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One of the few locations where you can get some parallel running and some pacing shots (outside of the stretch from Phoenix to Wickenburg) on the Peevine Branch.

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We stop at a grade crossing as the train has already beat us to it. Not a good shot, thanks to the poor lighting angle, the cloud of dust and the reflections from the car windows.

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Well that's the end of it. Time to let her go.

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Also apparently on the same roll of film is this shot of a Santa Fe eastbound, west of Flagstaff, Arizona. I don't know why it is in this batch of slides.

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To finish up the roll, I took some shots of our HO gauge train layout at our apartment in Mesa, Arizona.

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My lovely bride, Donna operating the S12 switcher.

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And an experiment - using powdered plaster as snow. It sort of worked.