An eastbound SP stack train tops the grade at Mescal and passes the aging coaling tower there.
An eastbound Southwest Chief passes native dwellings near Laguna.
Santa Fe 904 West roars through a curve west of Darling as the mountain where ATSF quarried all its ballast looms in the distance.
Late in the day, a Cotton Belt Dash 8 leads a westbound UP intermodal train up the grade out of Benson. The train will reach the summit at Mescal.
A short westbound intermodal train negotiates the giant, tight S-curve at Shawmut.
A worker at the LMIT fuels Dash 9 No. 697.
A big GE AC leads a long, empty vehicle train up the 1.0 percent grade between Bosque and Shawmut.
A UP local heads west back to Yuma after doing some work.
An eastbound BNSF pig train storms up a grade toward the Continental Divide, which it will crest within the next two miles.
A DD35B sandwiched between SD45s helps lift a UP westbound at Martinez on Cajon's east side.
After being waxed and polished, SD75Ms Nos. 234 and 202 are ready to pull BNSF's Super Bowl special the next morning.
Shortly after sunrise, a westbound intermodal train comes off the Needles Sub and skirts the old yard on its way to a crew change.
The VAN roars up the east side of Cajon with six SD40-2s for power.
Pacing Santa Fe 800 East across the Mojave Desert east of Goffs.
An eastbound Santa Fe freight climbs between Seligman and Crookton on the South Track as a hotshot pig train overtakes it on the North Track.
