Train #708 from Parker to Cadiz passes by the ATSF station sign and yard in Rice.

Train #708 from Parker to Cadiz.

Train #708 from Parker to Cadiz passes through the Sonoran Desert about a mile east of Grommet as the setting sun lights the Buckskin Mountains over one state in Arizona.

Train #708 from Parker to Cadiz has just begun its journey with most of its train still in Parker as it crosses the Colorado River into California.

As the sun nears the western horizon, westbound Arizona & California train number 708 passes through Rice. Rice was once where the Ripley District left the Cadiz District. Now the wye and a few ... (more)

During this period of time BNSF ran a unit cement train over the A&C eastbound at night meeting the normal train at Parker. This day however the cement was late and the normal interchange train wa... (more)

Not long after A&C aquired four big six axle rebuilds a pair was leading short BNSF eastbound interchange train 807 near the lonely outpost of Milligan, site of an old salt plant now abandoned acc... (more)

A&C westbound train 708 was approaching Cadiz, CA, where it will cut away from the train, head around the wye to turn it's power, during which BNSF's Cadiz turn out of Barstow, which has cut away ... (more)

A&C at the time six day a week westbound AZ to CA train 708 was approaching the yard limits at Rice, CA

Approaching Cadiz, the interchange point with BNSF.

this is one railroad you have to want to photograph as it traverses some very unforgiving and desolate territory across the Mojave desert of So California on it's west end. This is a unit runthrou... (more)

Arriving in Cadiz yard limit for a meet with BNSF. The second unit was a PR30C in Union Pacific colors.

Met the BNSF Cadiz Local behind blue/yellow GP60s and is heading southeast into the desert.

eastbound A&C train 708 near Sablon siding in Mojave desert

westbound A&C train 708 on exSanta Fe Parker district near Sablon siding in the middle of nowhere in the Mojave Desert