Sitting in the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's diesel facility in Barstow are ATSF RSD-15 9827 (ex-ATSF 827), SD24 4538 (ex-ATSF 938) and ATSF RCE 25 (a radio control helper built from ATSF F... (more)

Rolling into the station in Barstow is Amtrak train 35, the westbound Desert Wind. Amtrak SDP40F 500 and F40PH 233 are teamed to bring this seven-car train from Ogden, Utah, to Los Angeles... (more)

Arriving in Barstow as it travels across the Needles Sub, and the stark Mojave Desert, is BNSF Railway "Container Intermodal" S-LPCLHA1-04L, bound for the Los Angeles Harbor from Chicago... (more)

On the first day of a journey from Los Angeles to Chicago, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 and a trio of Dash 8-40CW diesels pull an excursion train across the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway as a treat fo... (more)

Sitting in Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway’s Barstow Diesel Service is a trio of freight locomotives: ATSF U36C 8750, GP30 3257 (ex-ATSF 1257) and F45 5904 (ex-1904). (Barstow, California â... (more)

Pulling out of the BNSF Railway's Barstow Yard is a westbound freight, with BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4014, BNSF SD40-2 6894 (ex-ATSF 5166), BNSF Dash 8-40CW 815 (ex-ATSF 815), BNSF Dash 9044CW 5508 and Un... (more)

Heading eastward on BNSF Railway's Needles Sub, this intermodal train has five Dash 9-44CWs for power: BNSF 5484, 4150, 779, 4950 and 4008. (Barstow, California - November 6, 2007)

Passing through the wide-open Mojave Desert is BNSF railway train Q-ATGLAC7-24V approaches the yard in Barstow, where the power will most likely get refueled as the crew is relieved with a fresh c... (more)

BNSF Railway train X-FRSDRA2-28L, an empty unit grain train that originated in Richmond CA heads east on the BNSF's Needles Sub for Drayton, North Dakota. The train is seen here parallel to Inter... (more)

Christmas Eve in the desert.

Crossing the Mojave Desert, exotic terrain for a locomotive from north of the 49th Parallel, is Canadian Pacific SD70ACU 7007 (the former CP SD9043MAC 9119) leading BNSF Railway train G-WMSKIN4-26... (more)

On this afternoon, BNSF Railway operated three westbound Guaranteed Service Intermodal trains that originated in Atlanta, Georgia, and were heading to Los Angeles, California: Q-ATGLAC7-22V, Q-ATG... (more)

A BNSF grain train with CN power is tied down at Daggett in BNSF Needles Subdivision.

Leaving Barstow and heading to northern California on BNSF Railway's Mojave Sub is a westbound freight train, powered by five General Electric BNSF diesels: ES44DC 7729 and Dash 9-44CWs 986 and 4... (more)