A few miles northeast of Mojave on a chilly winter morning finds a trio of SD70ACes powering an empty potash train bound for Trona. This is on the former Southern Pacific Jawbone Branch, now the U... (more)

This westbound is nearing Kelso where it will meet a Eastbound.

Heading down Cima Hill.

Empty coal train CTRSV-06 pulls through a little stretch of undulating territory as it approaches Saltdale on former SP Jawbone Branch.

New York to Los Angeles intermodal rounding the big fill at Klondike, CA on BNSF's Needles Sub.

Heading for Mojave, empty coal train CTRSV-06 from Trona passes through the remote outpost of Saltdale on former SP Jawbone Branch.

Heading southwest out of Searles Jct., empty coal train CTRSV-06 rounds a curve in the remote desert landscape as it approaches US HWY 395 on the former SP Jawbone Branch.

An empty UP coal trains works its way south toward Mojave after dropping its load at Trona.

An empty UP coal trains works its way south toward Mojave after dropping its load at Trona.

With a destination at LAUPT only a couple of hours away, the late afternoon sun shines on detouring southbound Amtrak train #11 as it negotiates the switches at bottom end of the yard in Mojave.

U.S. economical woes are represented on this BNSF Z train in early 2009, but nonetheless it makes for a pretty sight at Essex sprinting across the high desert toward Barstow on the Needles Sub.

In the high desert east of Mojave, a general merchandise freight works eastbound toward Barstow on the ex-ATSF Mojave Sub near Bissell.

With a colorful assortment of motive power, an eastbound manifest passes through Goffs and will soon be arriving Needles for a crew change.

With the town of Mojave in the distance, a Roseville to West Colton junk manifest sprints across the high desert toward Lancaster and a trip down the Palmdale Cutoff through Cajon Pass.