Magma Arizona

DRS6-6-1500

photo by: Jack Neville Superior, AZ - April, 1975

10 DRS6-6-1500 c/n 74812, b/d 7/1950 - built for McCloud River as #29 - to Magma as #10 in 1969 - donated to the Arizona Railway Museum 1994

S12

photo by: Marc Pearsall Superior AZ - May 2006

9 S12 c/n 75913, b/d 10/53 - built for McCloud River as #31 - built as an S12 without a turbocharger - to Magma in 1969 - stored out-of-service at Superior, AZ.

S8

photo by: Keith Ardinger

8 S8 c/n 75481, b/d 3/52 - built for Medford Corp. as # 8 - to Magma in 1968 - purchased by the Southern Oregon Chapter, NRHS in 1995

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photos by: Thomas Hillebrant "I shot these in April, 1990 while visiting the Magma Arizona. We first caught up with the train at Magma Jct, their SP interchange. I was hoping to see their big six-axle road switcher (DRS-6-6-1500 number 10), but instead the train had their two S-8 switchers (numbers 8 and 9), MU’ed in “elephant style”. They did some switching to put their train together, and then they headed back up the hill to Superior. We photographed them at several locations, and followed the dirt road that paralleled the tracks up a desert canyon on their approach to Superior. I wish I’d had a video camera to record the spectacle, because the engines had been “shotgunned” (or whatever they called it), with one exhaust stack for each cylinder, and as they ran, you could see individual puffs of exhaust over the stacks as each cylinder fired in its correct order. The sound was pretty good too. Although I was disappointed at not seeing the DRS running that day, in retrospect, watching two Baldwin switchers working in tandem like that was probably an even more rare experience." TH

photo by: R. Lee - collection of Thomas Hillebrant Superior, AZ - Feb 1989

photo by: Ted Ellis - collection of Thomas Hillebrant Superior, AZ - May 1988

photos by: K. C. Henkels - collection of Thomas Hillebrant Magma Jct., AZ - March 1971