A trio of BNSF GEs hustle San Bernardino stacks west on the Needles Sub.

BNSF C44-9W 5096 and NS C40-9 8779 hustle loaded racks westbound on the Needles Sub.

BNSF 7951 and 3 sisters hustle a westbound Z train along the busy Needles Sub, meeting an eastbound stacker just west of Fenner.

BNSF ET44AC 3968 and C44-9W 4517 shove a stack train through the Mojave Desert.

Transcon Traffic

The Mojave Desert is a vast area with typical desert vegetation - sparse and low. However, for railfans, this provides long views that makes it hard for the trains ... (more)

A hot westbound Z races through Essex in the late afternoon from the National trails hwy overpass.

The hot Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z-train ( Z WSPNBY9 01L), races down Goffs Hill near Essex as the head end of the Z LACNYC9 can be seen chugging along in the top left of the frame.

A eastbound empty BNSF grain train heads east along the Needles Sub with a CSX Tier4 second out.

UP 8114 leads a westbound detour along BNSF's Needles Subdivision at Essex. An eastbound can be seen in the distance as it nears Fenner.

GECX 2038 brings up the rear of this eastbound BNSF stack train as it races across the Mojave Desert at Essex.

Eastbound Santa Fe Barstow to Texas train 805 climbs Goffs Hill eastbound into the sunrise on the first morning of a great trip and bringing up the rear are tweny one cabooses twenty of which are ... (more)

Eastbound Santa Fe Barstow to Texas train 805 climbs Goffs Hill eastbound into the sunrise on the first morning of a great trip.

Essex is a lonely spot in California's Mojave Desert, on the former Santa Fe mainline between Los Angeles and Chicago. BNSF Railway train S-CLOSCO1-01A, powered by the typical assortment of ES44D... (more)

One of BNSF Railway's many, many intermodal trains speeds across the Mojave Desert, one of a seemingly endless string of double-stack trains on the railroad's Transcon mainline. BNSF ES44C4 6861,... (more)

BNSF 5695 leads this westbound at the National Trails Hwy overpass at Essex.