Crossing into the State of California, BNSF C44-9W No. 5273 leads a stack train across the Colorado River from Arizona, westbound on the Santa Fe Transcon to Barstow and points west.
As the sun begins to set on the last day of March, a pair of ES44C4s are locked in a battle with gravity as they tackle the 1.4% grade of Ash Hill on the BNSF Needles Subdivision.