A unit train from Trona arives at Searles to be set out for interchange with the Union Pacific.
Stormlight illuminates the high desert while a set of Trona Railway power shuffles around some hoppers at Searles Yard where freight is interchanged with Union Pacific. The crew will work well int... (more)
One of Trona Railway's former Southern Pacific SD40T-2s looking right at home in the northern Mojave Desert.
With the southern tip of California's Sierra Nevada range looming in the distance, a Trona Railway crew ties down a cut of cars for interchange at Searles on the remaining portion of the old SP br... (more)
A late afternoon storm is brewing over the Northern Mojave Desert as 5 Trona EMD's go about there switching duties at Searles, building and setting out cars for interchange with the Union Pacific.
Trona Railway EMD's back a long cut of cars onto the UP Main where they will leave them for interchange.
Trona Railway units go about there duties at Searles yard building there train before the journey back to Trona well after dark.
Two Trona Railway units briefly idle at Searles, as they wait to be coupled to the rear of a loaded coal train for the downhill trip back to Trona.
Four aging Trona Railway EMDs shove a cut of covered hoppers out of Searles toward the end of Union Pacific's Lone Pine Branch. The cars are loaded with soda ash, and will be tied down until Unio... (more)
Heading back to Trona, former SP and UP power haul a string of potash empties as the train approaches the Searles Station Cutoff.
Near the US 395 grade crossing, a coal empty off the Trona Railway works towards Mojave on the Lone Pine Sub.
4 Trona Railway units switch the yard at Searles.
Trona Railway 2008 leads a set of power setting out the CTRSV06 coal train for exchange with Union Pacific.
6 Trona Railway EMD units have just arrived from Trona with a cut of cars to be set out at the Junction with the Union Pacific.
Trona train departing Searles late in the afternoon with the UP Lone Pine Local in the background