A Santa Fe westbound roars up the big cut at Bissell at the north edge of Edwards Air Force Base. The lead SD45u is showing off fresh paint.

With the windmill dotted Tehachapi Mountains as a backdrop, BNSF 672 is the sole unit on this eastbound MOW train at Bissell on the Mojave Sub.

With the Tehachapi Mountains in the background, BNSF 5024 races east at Bissell with a sold TOFC train in tow.

A hot 991 train hustles down the big sand ditch at Bissell. In a few miles the train will stop to cut off its SD45R rear helper.

A hot eastbound intermodal train roars down the giant sand "ditch" at Bissell.

A full moon and the headlights from an approaching eastbound BNSF manifest illuminate a UP cement train waiting in Bissell siding on the BNSF Mojave Subdivision.

The second of 2 UP loaded coal trains running on BNSF trackage rights between Barstow and Mojave is seen splitting a pair of old Santa Fe searchlights between Sandborn and Bissell on the Mojave Su... (more)

Eastbound baretables race across the flat Mojave Desert on there way to Barstow as they split a pair of old Santa Fe desert tan searchlights at Bissell

A westbound unit grain train meets a low-priority intermodal freight waiting in the hole at Bissell.

A hot 985 symbol runs around a stack train in the hole at Bissell.

A single-engine helper adds braking power to a Barstow-bound train that has just come off Tehachapi and started its run across the desert. The helper will be cut off in a couple miles at Edwards.

As one eastbound intermodal train pulls out of Bissell siding, another waits on the main right behind it.

A heavy KCPB train loaded with coiled steel and powered by six SD40-2s, four up front and two on the rear, roars up the giant cut between Edwards and Bissell on its way to Tehachapi Pass.

UP 8137 West, a heavy coal train that got onto the BNSF at Barstow, steps over the east switch at Bissell at dusk on its way to Mojave.