Once a cattle stop for the railroad, Valle Junction, Arizona remains frozen in time.
ARIZONA TOURISM VIDEO
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From the parched Saguaro deserts to verdant mountain plateaus, Arizona features virtually every climate and ecosystem you can imagine. So discovered TPT Producer Jim Zura and the crew from Travelview International, on their 28-day trek through the Grand Canyon State, for the Arizona Office of Tourism. |
| "It was gorgeous, it was stunning, but it was a whirlwind," says Zura, of the project that required close to 100 setups in a state that encompasses 114,000 square miles. "The Grand Canyon is beyond awesome. But once we got the shots we needed, it was hurry up, gotta get to Lake Powell." | |
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Once a cattle stop for the railroad, Valle Junction, Arizona remains frozen in time. |
"One of the most poignant moments was when the Director and I were let off of the caboose of a steam-powered freight train at an abandoned junction in the middle of the mountain desert. The van wasn't there. The driver had taken the wrong dirt-road cutoff. With the wind whistling, tumbleweeds whisking past us, the metal sign clanging on the gate post of the old wooden corral, and the sight of the smoke plume from the engine chugging farther and farther down the track, I literally stepped back a hundred years. |
| We hitched a ride with a passing vaquero in a beat-up pickup truck, got back to the highway and eventually re-connected with civilization." | |
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