Easter Sunday brings business as usual on BNSF's thronged Barstow to Needles mainline. A pair of BNSF "land barges" meet a few miles east of Siberia. Amboy Crater can be seen in the background.
An eastbound mixed freight descends Ash Hill toward Amboy while, in the distance, a westbound stacker struggles around the horseshoe curve at Siberia on the high line. The dual transcontinental ma... (more)
A manifesst headed for Barstow leans into one of many curves at Siberia as the Lava Hills pop with color in the distance in response to the light of the setting sun.
Westbound approaching Klondike where the east and west mains split along BNSF's Needles Subdivision.
A grain train roars westward on the upper alignment at Siberia as a pig train cruises downhill toward Amboy on the lower.
As an eastbound manifest drops down the eastern slope of Ash Hill, an intermodal train headed for LA starts its attack on the grade.
At dusk, an eastbound stack train rolls off the eastern slope of Ash Hill with the area's black lava hills all around.
"Three For One." The BNSF transcontinental mainline is in typical full swing on a beautiful autumn evening in the Mojave Desert. An eastbound drag freight is descending the Ash Hill ... (more)
After endless consists of GE dash 9s, a jackpot! We could hear this guy coming for 15 minutes working his way up from Amboy. He'll eventually make the summit at Ash Hill.
Note faded "Santa Fe" on the trestle. Pushers pushing on this eastbound double stack.
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Sunrise at the campsite brings us this vista
Westward, climbing the east slope of Ash Hill, passing ruins of days past.
