Harkening back to a time when scarlet and grey was as common a sight in Southern California as the region's Joshua Trees, an empty cement train, bound for the Creal Branch, drops down the Tehachap... (more)

A BNSF GEVO is on the point of a train loaded with windmill tower parts as it waits to be positioned for unloading at a staging facility in Mojave.

Locomotives:
BNSF 7765 ES44DC

The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak SDP40F 518 and 517, is rolling westbound through the Southern Pacific Mojave yard. Santa Fe 5702 is slowing down ... (more)

Three EMDs from Union Pacific plus one GE from Norfolk Southern, wait in Mojave, ready to work. Photo taken with permission.

Late evening in Mojave finds a northbound BNSF grain train passing through town. Soon it will be down on it's knees pulling the east slope of Tehachapi Pass.

As the sun peeks above the horizon the mountains and desert above Mojave are a glow in the dawn of a new day. All the while the all to familiar sound of heavy dynamics simultaneously greets the da... (more)

UP 9079 leads a northbound stack train out of Mojave in the late evening.

BNSF 606 leads a Southbound grain empty into Mojave.

This Northbound UP manifest nears Mojave with CSX power on the rear.

Southern Pacific SD70Ms 9818, 9816 and Union Pacific SD60 6055 roll downgrade from the summit at Tehachapi towards Mojave.

A daily ritual from Bakersfield to Los Angeles Harbor is the operation of the GATX TankTrain by Southern Pacific, at Warren near Mojave, California.

Still dressed in its sharp warbonnet livery BNSF SD75M 8249 finds work as the rear dupe on this eastbound manifest dropping into Mojave. The venerable old Santa Fe motor is passing under the once ... (more)

EMD SD70M locomotive belonging to Union Pacific Railroad, performing maneuvers in Mojave. In background, the AWEC Alta Wind Energy Center, also known as Mojave Wind Farm. PS: This is my new Rai... (more)

A full moon rises over the Mojave desert at sunset while a Union Pacific mixed freight battles the grade coming out of Mojave.

BNSF 6806 leads a colorful southbound manifest out of the Tehachapi Mountains just north of Mojave.