The hot ZWSPNBY makes short work of Ash Hill with SD70ACe #8773 leading.

BNSF 5388 in H3 paint brings up the rear of a westbound QCHISBD.

Late afternoon finds a 2 unit westbound Q train working up Ash Hill.

BNSF 8045 along with a CP unit shove on the rear of a westbound QCHISBD as it tops Ash Hill.

As dusk has settled over the Mojave Desert, an eastbound stack train from the Port of Los Angeles crest the summit of Ash Hill as it races down the 1.6% grade into the darkness of the desert.

Foreign power leads Augustine-San Bernardino intermodal traffic west on the Needles Sub.

Alliance-Stockton priority intermodal climbs to the top of Ash Hill.

Fresh NS AC44C6M 4795 looks very out of place in the desert.

BNSF ES44DC 7740 heads down the hill with an eastbound stack train.

Grain loads claw their way up the steep hill at Mile 685 of BNSF's busy Needles Sub.

Alliance-Los Angeles priority intermodal climbs towards the top of Ash Hill as an eastbound vehicle train heads down.

A fresh NS leader climbs up Ash Hill with a westbound Z train.

A quartet of GEs depart East Ash Hill with a Chicago Logistics Park bound stack train.

BNSF 8174 leads a heavy westbound loaded grain train up Ash Hill.

BNSF ES44C4 8017 heads back to Barstow with 61 baretables from Amboy just as the tailend of the H-BARLUB clears... Phew!