Amtrak 175 sprints across the Mojave Sub in the late afternoon light of April 10th 2011. The detouring Starlight will soon be sailing along the floor of the Antelope Valley as it heads for LA.

Amtrak Cascade F59PHi #466 glides along the Mojave Sub near Ansel with train #11X. This Coast Starlight set is making a deadhead move from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles after a mudslide closed th... (more)

Old & worn, but still on the mainline. Case it point, UP 2038 hustling across the Mojave Sub near MP 389 just shy of the Sopp RD crossing. Along with the 2038 are another pair of 60 series EMDs; ... (more)

UP 7878 rolls off of Ansel hill & into Rosamond, CA with the IPDLCR 20 in tow. The IPDLCR 20 is made up of all new UMAX 53' containers.

UP 5320 sprints across the desert in the late afternoon passing Ansel siding with the ZLTLC 25 in tow.

Late afternoon along the UP Mojave Sub finds a Northbound manifest working up Ansel Hill with a pair of CP units.

UP 7163 leads 3 other AC4400s & the OTNLB 10 down Ansel hill & into the Antelope Valley. Note the former SP AC44 2nd back, still earning it's keep.

UP 8194 leads a very late MFRWC 5 past Ansel siding and towards West Colton. Soon 8194 will lead it's train off of Ansel hill and into the AV, Ansel is a few miles north of Rosamond, CA. UP 1995 i... (more)

eastbound SP unit oil "tank train" near Rosamond, CA

UP 5428 breaks the silence as it storms through Rosamond, CA in the morning sun.

A westbound manifest has just passed through Rosamond and is starting the short climb to the siding at Ansel

A Union Pacific crewmember climbs aboard an EMD SD70M # 4039 and gets ready to head out on the uphill grade at Ansel, California on July 5th, 2002. Steve Crise Photo © scrise.com

Early morning in the Mojave Desert finds the Brooklyn trailer train racing through Rosamond with a fog bank hanging over the Tehachapi's

A northbound manifest travels up the Antelope Valley just before sunrise.