Heading into a desert sunrise, an eastbound UP mixed freight passes under the BNSF signals at West Daggett, and will soon be on home rails just a couple of miles ahead.

Eastbound tonnage races past some snap track and wheel sets at Danby on BNSF's Needles Sub.

Under a desert sky, UP 4200 has a heavy westbound stacker in good order as it makes the slow and steady descent on Cima Hill.

The going away view to accompany the previous photo of BNSF 7777.

A gem of the Mojave desert, the old Union Pacific depot in Kelso looks beautiful after a long and well deserved restoration project. Hopefully there is success in reopening the lunch counter for b... (more)

This BNSF unit brings the photographer a little luck with the sucker holes out along the Needles Sub near Siberia on a late winter afternoon.

A westbound auto train races across the desert floor between Kelso and Afton Canyon on UP's Cima Sub.

Lease power from GCFX and a CN cowl unit provide some welcome color to the desert as they bring an auto train into California at Park Moabi, just west of the Colorado River crossing at Topock.

A broadside view of UP stacks working east through the heart of Afton Canyon on a spring morning.

A heavy westbound doublestack has just crested the summit at Ash Hill on BNSF's Needles Sub as it approaches the town of Ludlow out in the Mojave Desert.

Stacks bound the Los Angeles harbor are stretched out across the desert landscape at Basin on UP's Cima Sub.

An early morning out in the Mojave Desert finds this eastbound mixed freight on BNSF's Needles Subdivision approaching Ludlow.

On its first visit to southern California, the Rio Grande heritage unit heads up a westbound stack train through Oro Grande on the BNSF Cajon Sub, just outside of Victorville.

A little west of Barstow on BNSF's Cajon Subdivision, a westbound trailer train sits parked at Lenwood awaiting a crew to bring the train into L.A.

An early April morning finds a loaded ethanol train from the midwest stretched out on the sweeping curve at Klondike on BNSF's Needles Subdivision. This pretty well sums up my idea of railroading ... (more)