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)

Cresting the Summit at Ash Hill, NS 8104 leads the QNYCLAC towards Barstow.

NS 8104 leads a westbound QNYCLAC at Siberia on an extremely hot afternoon on the Needles Sub.

After stopping to allow hot BNSF train Z-NBYWSP9-14U to thread its way around eastbound BNSF S-LBELPC1-13 and westbound Q-ALTLAC1-12, engineer JM Rossi is accelerating BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5505 gets t... (more)

Racing across the Mojave Desert in 107ºF (41.67ºC) heat is BNSF Railway train Q-NYCLAC6-08L, running nearly 84 hours behind schedule (thanks to a derailment in Missouri), with an all-Norfolk Sou... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA) is running nearly 84 hours behind schedule as it rounds the curve at Milepost 694 on the BNSF’s Needles Su... (more)

Late afternoon at Ibis, finds a westbound S train as it nears the Hwy 95 crossing at Arrowhead Jct.

One of BNSF 25th anniversary locomotives, BNSF 6022, is on the point of an Alliance, TX to Los Angeles Harbor, CA stack train as it sits in Needles, CA. Three trains are tied down at Needles as th... (more)

Running 13 hours behind schedule due to mechanical issues in Colorado, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief approaches Barstow to perform its station stop, on May 10, 2021.

Deep in the Mojave Desert, BNSF Railway train L-CAL1161-13, a local operating from Barstow to Cadiz (pronounced "KAY-Deez") and return, and known colloquially as the Cadiz Turn, a... (more)

History at Barstow For the first time in history, an active 4000' class steam locomotive calls on the original, 1911-built Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger station/Harvey House,... (more)

The Bullion Mountains form a backdrop as BNSF train H-BELBAR1-12 makes its way from Belen, New Mexico, to Barstow, California. A quartet of contemporary General Electric diesels (ES44C4 8189, ES4... (more)

A loaded Sweetgrass to Fresno grain load lead by CP 8606 works upgrade between Ludlow and Pisgah.