The Trona Railway heads south past the Searles Valley welcome sign outside of Trona.

A short Trona Railway Searles Turn near West End, Trona CA, 07/31/23.

Soon after clearing the storage yard at Oxy far in the distance, the engineer has all 5 of his sun beaten locomotives in the corner as they start up the stair step grade that will soon have the tr... (more)

Six SD40-2 variants lead the westbound Trona interchange train into Searles Jct. In the foreground are empty hoppers on the stub-ended UP Lone Pine branch awaiting pickup.

Six SD40-2 variants lead the westbound Trona interchange train near Spangler, CA on a beautiful Fall afternoon in the Mojave desert.

Six graduates of Electro-motive's La Grande, IL erecting hall, class of the SD40 series, bring the westbound empty Trona 'coal buckets' out of the Searles Valley and towards an interchange with th... (more)

Arriving at Searles, 6 Trona EMD's will set out there train for the UP before returning to Trona.

Just after crossing Searles Station Road, the westbound Trona road freight sounds great grinding up hill with the throttle's wide open!

6 Trona EMD's lug a long train through the Spangler OHV area just south of Searles.

Leaving Trona behind for a 30 miles run to the interchange with Union Pacific at Searles. Nothing can beat the feeling of solitude in the Pinnacles Valley.

Trona Ry daily train to interchange point with Union Pacific at Searles depart Trona with six EMD units and a empty train of coal cars.

Five Trona Railway EMDs lug 12 loaded covered hoppers, and a long string of coal empties out of the Searles Valley. In 23 miles the train will reach the summit at Searles where the cars will be i... (more)