Having just crested the top of Ash Hill a few miles back, a westbound priority intermodal train with a Tier 4 GE leading approaches Ludlow on the BNSF Needles Subdivision.

A breezy and cool November morning along the Needles Subdivision finds an eastbound BNSF empty grain train topping the stiff grade on Ash Hill with a leased Citirail GE on the point.

Running well over 9 hours off of its advertised schedule, train #3 the westbound Southwest Chief puts in a rare daylight appearance out in the desert as it approaches Ludlow with a BNSF unit lendi... (more)

Becoming slightly more desirable as time marches on, a BNSF 4400-series Dash 9 along with two sisters and an ES44DC power an eastbound stack train over Ash Hill located on the BNSF Needles Subdivi... (more)

BNSF 3979 leads the ZWSPLAC down off Ash Hill as it nears the Route 66 crossing near Ludlow.

BNSF 3964 west passes through Griffith in low afternoon light as it heads for Needles.

Citirail lease power leads a eastbound grain empty at Ash Hill.

BNSF 6617 leads a nearly 9 hour late westbound Southwest Chief down off Ash Hill.

Racing across the eastern Mojave Desert, a Los Angeles, CA to Ft. Madison, IA intermodal train has now problem making the 70 MPH track speed along Route 66 near Goffs.

BNSF 8078 leads a long Alliance to Oakland stack train west at Newberry.

A westbound V train works across the Needles Sub in the late afternoon at Lavic.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train slowly makes the climb up Ash Hill over the vast desert landscape on this 100 degree summer day.

BNSF 3911 west battles Ash Hill on a 112 degree afternoon on the Needles Sub.