Early morning at Ludlow finds an eastbound manifest passing through the small desert outpost.

A westbound manifest snakes its way up hill out of Ludlow with a foreign visitor in tow on a windy Saturday afternoon.

CP 8114 gets back underway after a lengthy stop at Minneola due to traffic ahead, and a broken rail at Daggett.

CP 8114 leads the 7014 in Heritage paint on a westbound Sweetgrass to Fresno grain load.

Twenty-one-thousand six-hundred horsepower, freed from the confines of the Barstow fuel racks, are at work getting BNSF Railway Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-LACLPC6-23 up to speed – in ... (more)

BNSF Railway Intermodal Stack Train S-LPKSCO1-20T, which originated in Kansas City KS and is headed to Long Beach CA, had its crew "die on the law" at Nebo, just four miles from the crew change po... (more)

Having clawed at the grade for much of its journey since leaving Needles, reaching a top speed of 15 mph and an average of more like 10 mph, the BNSF 7431's crew buckles up as the heavy Galesburg,... (more)

As the western sky glows bright red and orange from the setting sun, a westbound BNSF stack train races across the Mojave Desert, near Cadiz, CA, along BNSF's Needles Subdivision.

A pair of westbound trains make their way down the western slope of Goffs Hill as the first one approaches Cadiz and the second one clears the control point of Danby under a full moon sky.

A near new BNSF 3269 leads an eastbound Q train thru Goffs in the early morning.

BNSF 7431, two additional motors on the point and a single DPU on the rear are doing all they can to lug a massive Galesburg, IL to Barstow, CA manifest upgrade at Siberia on a hot, summer afterno... (more)

Amtrak's Phase II heritage unit sits in the set out track in Needles, Calif. after being set out the night before from Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief due to mechanical issues. The locomotive w... (more)