With only about 20 minutes of light left, BNSF 7207 leads a hot Z8 across the Mojave desert through Amboy as it chases a heavy 10,000 foot stack train up Ash Hill.

A heavy 10,000 FT stack train struggles up the grade across Arrowhead Junction as a clean 6800 series C4 gets ready to pull its train into the hole at Goffs to let some hot UPS Z trains over take ... (more)

The California sun starts to set at CP Homer along the Needles Subdivision as the BNSF 7860 leads it westbound auto train hot on the heals of a westbound land barge.

BNSF 5200 leads a colorful lashup down from Goffs on the Needles Sub.

A westbound loaded ethanol train snakes its way into Barstow on a hot summer day in the high desert.

BNSF 7361 knocks off its last miles across the Needles Sub as it passes the station of Cool Water near Daggett in the late evening.

BNSF 4555 leads a westbound at Cadiz on the Needles Sub.

As storms brew in the background near Needles, a westbound hot Z train charges across the Mojave Desert near Arrowhead Junction.

Climbing out of Ludlow, a Needles bound baretable catches the evening light, under the power of two BNSF GE's.

A westbound H SLABAR slowly moves into Barstow Yard as the "golden hour" starts to kick in.

A Clovis, NM to Long Beach, CA stack train slowly approaches track work at Barstow where they will make a crew change for the last leg of this train's trip.

Lead by a consist of 5 B40-8 (in 4 different paint schemes) lead by a brand new ES44C4, today's eastbound Cadiz Turn has just passed Ash Hill, on the Needles subdivision.