view of the old Barstow yard as seen from the east

A westbound QPEALAC gets underway as it departs Barstow at Valley Jct.

BNSF 606 with a nice lashup await a crew to take this train north over the Mojave Sub. Most Northern California trains are tied down due to a derailment in the Tehachapi Mountains earlier in the w... (more)

Night fever.

ATSF C40-8W 826 built 4-5/1992; acquired by CN Rail in July 2010, and numbered 2148, still in service.

Santa Fe is still King. BNSF 699, a C44-9W still wearing its original warbonnet paint that it received in September of 1994 when it was delivered to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway,... (more)

SF 5621 and 3215 at the SF Barstow shops under going repairs.

SF 5940 sits in a storage line along with many other units during the winter of 1981 when a the recession of the time cause a major decrease in business.

Forty-five minutes after arriving at the eastern end of BNSF Railway’s Barstow Yard, train Q-NSABAR6-20’s power cutoff and moved to the engine facility. Canadian Pacific SD70ACU 6644, which w... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NSABAR6-20, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal train operating from Norfolk Southern’s Ashland Avenue Yard in Chicago, Illinois, to Barstow, California, has arrived at the east... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA), with run-through Norfolk Southern power (ES44AC 8104 in Heritage paint for the old Lehigh Valley Railroad a... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA), with run-through Norfolk Southern power (ES44AC 8104 in Heritage paint for the old Lehigh Valley Railroad a... (more)

In the early 1970s, the Santa Fe Railway expanded their yard in Barstow, in southern California’s Mojave Desert, by extending it – basically building a whole new yard – west of the original ... (more)

While Santa Fe train 891, the eastbound Super C, spent a few minutes cutting out a troublesome diesel while in Barstow, I had the time to take detail photos of the various markings on ATSF ... (more)

Three Santa Fe Alco PA's pose in front of the Barstow Diesel Shop. Photo from my collection, no photographer information listed on slide.