Late afternoon at Mojave finds this northbound BNSF unit oil train with Ferromex power on the rear.

Santa Fe's hottest eastbound train, 991, has just cleared the turnout off SP's Mojave Sub onto Santa Fe's Mojave Sub for the sprint to Barstow and eventually Chicago.

Late afternoon finds a fast moving ZLCLT making easy work of the 2.2% grade out of Mojave.

UP 4748 in fresh paint at South Mojave, 8/31/19.

Exiting the desert and heading into the mountains.

UP 7296 in fresh paint leads a coal empty off the Lone Pine Sub at Chaffee. This crew had to endure a lengthy wait to enter the double main track due to heavy BNSF traffic this afternoon.

UP 9099 hustles the hot LATC to Lathrop Z-train Westbound as an Eastbound manifest heads towards Mojave in the background.

Eastbound SP pigs Mojave

Trains and Planes Under Threatening Skies. A passing storm system dumps rain in the background across the high desert as PRLX works a cut of cars to the transfer point with Union Pacific's ... (more)

Progress Rail SW-9 switches out a couple of boxcars at the Mojave Air & Space Port, where Progress maintains a wheel refurbishment facility

A short San Bernardino bound MOW train nears Mojave in the early morning.

Looking incredibly small against the backdrop of the mountains, an eastbound BNSF manifest approaches Mojave on a crisp late-summer morning.

With its trip over the famed Tehachapi Pass complete, BNSF 8397 leads it's Z train downgrade and into Mojave near MP 377. After passing through the small, desert community, the ES44C4 will bank to... (more)

Leading this S/B Southern Pacific TankTrain, referred to as the Oil Cans is SP SD45R 7534, UP SD40-2 3204, SP SD40T-2 8367 and SP SD45R 7642 near Mojave, California.