The hot Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA UPS train races up Ash Hill as it traverses the normal eastbound track to get around slower westbound traffic.

An eastbound Z-train charges up the western slope of Goffs Hill, passing Danby, as makes its way across the open landscape of the Mojave Desert.

The last rays of sunlight have produced vibrant colors in the sky over the eastern Mojave Desert. As the light fades away, the headlights of the BNSF #8028 illuminate the steel rails near Cadiz, C... (more)

A pair of LA Harbor bound intermodal trains are tied down on the main tracks in front of the Needles Depot as the moon rises in the background. Due to the port's back up, trains wait for their tur... (more)

With the cooling towers of Southern California Edison’s Coolwater PACE 520 Power Plant looming in the distance, BNSF Railway Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-NYCLAC7-26L rounds the S-curve at... (more)

A NS Dash-9 leads a San Bernardino long-pool Z-train across the Mojave Desert as it grinds up the 1.4% grade of Goffs Hill at Homer.

Almost like a scene from the early 2000s, a pair Warbonnets are found stopped in Needles Yard. BNSF 742 sits in the roundhouse tracks, waiting for its next assignment. In the back, BNSF 4718 leads... (more)

A trio of GEs chug up the grade at a crawl as they approach the crest at Ash Hill. This train was the first of a parade of four westbounds spanning to Amboy, with the last train being five light e... (more)

After a long hot day in the desert, the crew of the Cadiz local shuttles back to Barstow light power as the setting sun squeezes one final minute of direct light upon the rails.

A duo of foreign Norfolk Southern motors provide the horsepower needed to help navigate the twists and grades of the BNSF Needles Subdivision as temperatures reach well over 100 degrees across the... (more)

Mixed in among the nearly constant parade of Intermodal trains on BNSF Railway Needles Sub are a few "loose car" freights. One of these is seen there, as train H-BELBAR 3-12 (a High Priority Merc... (more)

Conductor Walters and Engineer Cox have plenty of time to get their train, BNSF Q-NYCLAC6-08L, to the next crew change point, as it is just fifteen miles ahead and they still have 3 hours and 40 m... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA), with run-through Norfolk Southern power (ES44AC 8104 in Heritage paint for the old Lehigh Valley Railroad a... (more)

BNSF train S-PEASCO3-10, an Intermodal Stack heading to Long Beach CA from Pearland TX, rounds the curve at the west end of Ludlow, on the railway’s Needles Sub. This train is led by an ES44C4 ... (more)

The rear end of this eastbound QSTOCHI with EMD SD70ACe 9051.