With a colorful consist up front, BNSF's Barstow-Kansas City manifest glides down Goffs hill towards a crew change at Needles.

Barstow-Kansas City priority manifest speeds east on the Needles Sub.

BNSF ES44DC 7486 leads a westbound Z train up the hill towards Homer and Goffs.

Pasco, WA bound manifest is eastbound between Homer and Ibis on the Needles Sub.

BNSF's H BARPAS meets an S LPCLBE east of Homer, CA on the Needles Sub.

BNSF C44-9W 5375 leads a Barstow-Kansas City manifest east downhill towards Needles.

An Eastbound BNSF Z Train catches some rays while descending Goffs Hill on a partly cloudy winter afternoon.

A slow moving intermodal train grinds up the eastern slope of Goffs Hill as the morning sun rises over the eastern Mojave Desert on a warm September morning.

Shortly before sunset, a westbound domestic stack train is well into its climb up Goffs Hill. In the background, the Dead Mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert.

Unusual power for a stack train !. A westbound stack train is still working hard on the climb out of Needles. The B23-7 - C30-7 combo is certainly not typical power for a stack train !

Nearing the summit of the continuous pull that has ailed them since departing Needles, BNSF's westbound Q NYCLAC is now only a few miles from the top at Goffs.

BNSF 8267 West, G-SLGBAR8-22A with ethanol tanks mixed in the grain hopps. Struggling up the east side of the Goff grade at MP 599.0, or near Bannock.

BNSF ES44DC 7557 leads a loaded military train westbound on the Needles Sub.

BNSF ES44C4 8125 leads a LA bound stack train past the tailend distributed power of a Clovis destined stack train at Bannock.

BNSF 8125, 8505, 8275 lift a 106 platform "Q" stacker alongside the distributed power of a stopped "S" stacker LBPCLO1 17.