A ballast train has been tied down on the former Modoc mainline at Flanigan, as lingering debris clouds from the day's thunderstorms roll east toward the Smoke Creek desert.

Diverted onto the WP route due to track work on Donner Pass, an eastbound with loads of Toyotas from the Bay Area throttles up as it leaves the siding at Floka.

Easter Sunday brings business as usual on BNSF's thronged Barstow to Needles mainline. A pair of BNSF "land barges" meet a few miles east of Siberia. Amboy Crater can be seen in the background.