Layover at Bagdad - [2013 Winter Solstice +1 Series] - An eastbound stack train rolls past the debris from the August 24, 2013, derailment at Bagdad California where a number of empty cars ... (more)

A hot eastbound Z train lead by BNSF 8327 and a pair of NS units blow through Bagdad in the late morning.

Eastbound at Bagdad -There is a new waypoint sign at Bagdad that I have never seen before.

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal kicks it into high gear along Route 66 between Bagdad and Amboy, California, in the Mojave Desert along Santa Fe’s Needles Subdivision. A pair each of GE B40-8Ws... (more)

A hot eastbound pig train roars off Ash Hill and hustles across the flat towards Amboy.

In the Heart Mojave - What do you do with an epic eastbound lash up that is traveling away from the sun towards Amboy and you think you're screwed because you found the train too late to ca... (more)

An extremely long harbor train passes the hills of barren Bagdad on its way to Long Beach, CA.

The race is on, as two trains speed west on BNSF's Needles Subdivision. The first train in the shot is passing through Bagdad, while the Z train in the distance, running on the opposite track, wi... (more)

The westbound stack train is at Bagdad, in the heart of California's Mojave Desert, and is about to start working its way up to the summit at Ash Hill.

Santa Fe train 807 rolls east through the great Mojave Desert with 16 cars of interchange traffic for the Arizona and California Railroad at Cadiz.

Meeting in Bagdad. On November 6th, 2012, BNSF Railway train Z-SBDWSP9-06L (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; San Bernardino CA to Willow Springs IL), behind ES44DC 7816, meets westbound train ... (more)

BNSF Railway 7503 grinds upgrade on its way from Alliance, Texas, to Thenard, in the Los Angeles harbor area. They may all look alike, but each of these three diesels are different GE models: ES... (more)

Mojave sunset
The last rays of sun illuminate the Mojave desert west of Bagdad as Santa Fe's first GE Dash 9, No. 600, leads westbound tonnage on March 7, 1995.

Westbound near Bagdad, adjacent to the Historic Route 66, a Los Angeles destined stack train glides across the desert at ease, operating at a track speed of 70mph under the power of three BNSF GE'... (more)

A westbound manifest with a NS unit work through Bagdad as they climb between Amboy and Siberia.