At sunset on the Santa Fe's Needles District, a hot pig train hustles away from us toward a major climb at Ash Hill.
BNSF 6527 leads 2 older CSXT units on a westbound military train as it eases out of the siding at Amboy and throttles up for the climb to Ash Hill.
Meet East of Bagdad - Backed by the high peaks of the dry and desolate Bristol Mountains, an eastbound bore table train (empty well cars) with some epic power meets a Los Angeles bound doub... (more)
On Bolo Hill at East Amboy - An eastbound stack train passes through CP East Amboy as climbs Bolo Hill after leaving Amboy California.
Amboy Behind - A re-routed eastbound UP auto train climbs Bolo Hill out of Amboy California.
Santa Fe westbound Birmingham to Los Angeles BN runthrough train QBHLA was climbing Ash Hill passing Klondike in the Mojave Desert
West Switch for the National Chloride Lead at Amboy California - An eastbound auto train crosses the west switch for the International Chloride lead off the Needles Subdivision at West Ambo... (more)
Meet at West Amboy - A westbound high priority pig train meets an eastbound stacker at Amboy California on an unseasonably warm March day, (Left Leader BNSF 7513 GE ES44DC and Right Le... (more)
Racing through the desert in Amboy with 70 miles per hour eastbound on the Transcon of the BNSF. ES44C4 # 6942, ES44C4 # 8018 and ES44DC # 7795.
A very interesting consist of BNSF power in 4 different paint schemes pulling an eastbound trailer train on the Transcon between Bagdad and Amboy. Leading is ES44C4 # 6813 in the actual paint sche... (more)
CP 9529 leads this westbound stack/auto train west along the Needles Sub.
CP pool power leads a westbound BNSF stack train across the Needles Sub just west of Amboy.
Going away from the setting sun, an eastbound Z train sails east through the Mojave Desert.
GEs lead a Atlanta-LA domestic stack train west in the late evening.