Our route today took us from the southwest corner of Colorado, barely passing through a tiny corner of northwest New Mexico, and on into Arizona. Yep, the famed ‘Four Corners’ region.

Near Kayenta, Arizona we saw tracks for an electric train running alongside the highway. When we turned toward Page, we crossed the tracks and saw a sign warning ‘Danger: 50,000 Volts.’ We wondered what an electric train was doing out in the middle of (seemingly) nowhere. We later learned that it is an electrified private railroad operating within the Navajo Nation and that it transports coal 78 miles from the Peabody Energy Kayenta Mine near Kayenta to the Navajo Generating Station power plant at Page. We also learned that the coal-fired plant may be shutdown in 2019, but the Navajo Nation wants to keep the train to promote tourism from Page.