ATSF 5704 has returned to home rails, painted in a spectacular rendition of the bicentennial colors it once wore for the 1976 anniversary, as it rolls west on a Z train ultimately bound for the So... (more)

San Diego to Barstow tonnage behind BNSF 3685 slows to a stop at Hodge, account Barstow being in meltdown.

BNSF and NS power bring up the rear of a Chicago bound stack train at the Hinkley Rd crossing.

An eastbound baretable train heads out of Hodge as they close in on Barstow at sunset.

A pair of NS motors lead a westbound ZAUGSBD7 as it approaches the Hinkley Rd crossing at Hodge.

A pair of NS units lead a westbound QNYCLAC at Hodge on the Cajon Sub.

A westbound Q train heads out of Barstow in the late afternoon.

134 Years In The Making. The desolate, desert community of Hodge, Calif. briefly feels tremors caused by the weight of a 1.2 million pound steam locomotive, UP 4014, as the 1941-built, 4-8-... (more)

BNSF 3275 leads an eastbound stack near Hodge in the early morning.

Two-month-old Amtrak 50 is the first of a pair of P42DCs pulling a seven-car Desert Wind (train 35) around a curve in the Mojave Desert as the train heads toward Los Angeles from Ogden. Th... (more)

Union Pacific's "Big Boy" steam locomotive, No. 4014, gets the chance to stretch its legs on the winding desert floor as it passes through the community of Hodge. The original AT&SF righ... (more)

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 has just departed Barstow, CA en route to West Colton on day 2 of a passenger excursion to benefit the RailGiants Museum in Pomona, California, which had displayed the l... (more)

Santa Fe tried many combinations of locomotives to pull it's York Canyon, NM to Kaiser Steel in Fontana, CA coal trains, often in solid sets. One of the last combos they used was six of their ten ... (more)

It is 8:00 pm (20:00) and 91º F (32.7º C) at milepost 14.3 on BNSF's Cajon Subdivision and the sun is touching the western horizon as Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, passes... (more)