Now back on home rails, this BNSF coil steel train is cutting through the heat of the desert floor as it accelerates out of Mojave for Barstow.

Titans of the present are passing under the Southern Pacific relic on the south slope of the Tehachapi grade, approaching Mojave.

Eastbound BNSF Z train leaving Mojave and the joint UP - BNSF trackage

An eastbound passes through town with the common power of the day from both EMD and GE on the point.

Having come down off the Tehachapi grade this eastbound has just made a left in the town of Mojave. Now on ATSF track its next stop is Barstow, CA.

A rare bird: this unit was originally a SDP45, built in August 1970 as Erie-Lackawanna 3668. It has been successively EL 3668, CR 6699, VMV 6699, SP 8692 and UP 2768. 70ft 8in long and 4900 gallon... (more)

A rare bird: this unit was originally a SDP45, built in August 1970 as Erie-Lackawanna 3668. It has been successively EL 3668, CR 6699, VMV 6699, SP 8692 and UP 2768. 70ft 8in long and 4900 gallon... (more)

Ex. Apalachicola Northern SW9 #711 switches cars for its current owner Progress Rail Services, at the Mojave Airport.

BNSF Dash 9-44CWs 5160 and 4310 bring train X-FRSABE5-16 into Mojave, California, after conquering the crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains on June 18, 2006.