After performing in Phoenix, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train has operated over the BNSF for three of the past five years that I've lived here. In 2005, it departed after midnight and I only got video.
In 2006 I was able to catch the train just past Beardsley and chase it up to Castle Hot Springs where the BNSF crew turned it over to the Arizona & California for the trip west to California via Parker.
ES44DC 7683 leads the U-PHXFRS1-10A east of Beardsley towards Castle Hot Springs on the morning of 10 July 06.
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I'm working on the photos of the rest of the train as well as the 2007 Circus Train.