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)

The unique ATSF "Beep" sits silently on display at the Western American Railroad Museum at Barstow's Amtrak station. This experimental rebuild combined a Baldwin VO-1000 with EMD Geep me... (more)

Santa Fe, AT&SF SD40-2 5191, leads an eastbound out on the mainline at, Barstow, California. June 23, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

UP, Union Pacific SD40-2 3183 leads C30-7 2849 U30C 2510 SD40-2 3580 eastbound on the Santa Fe at Barstow, California. June 23, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

BNSF 9210 leads an eastbound grain empty at Hutt, as it enters Barstow yard.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.