With a Siemens built Brightline trainset in tow, UP SD70M 4619 leads the consist around the curve at Warren, several miles north of Mojave, CA.

Ex SP SD40T-2 #2006 leads an empty Trona Railway coal train, as it begins its journey to the Union Pacific interchange at Searles, CA. The days of coal trains on the Trona Railway are numbered, a... (more)

An ex SP tunnel motor leads a string of empty covered hoppers back to Trona from the UP interchange at Searles.

Union Pacific's Rio Grande heritage unit leads the MWCFR, as it swings into tunnel #2 at the north end of Bealville.

Two of GE's Tier 4 demonstrators lead a Pasco, WA to Barstow, CA manifest, as it approaches tunnel #2 in the Tehachapi Mountains.

An ailing turbo has this aging set of Trona Railway EMDs down to a crawl, as they lug their train loaded with soda ash toward Searles.

The race is on, as two trains speed west on BNSF's Needles Subdivision. The first train in the shot is passing through Bagdad, while the Z train in the distance, running on the opposite track, wi... (more)

A westbound BNSF stack train rounds Sullivan's Curve, as it heads down Cajon Pass.

Trona Railway's aging SD40-2 #2008 pauses while performing switching duties in Searles, CA.

Union Pacific's ZDLSKX passes under the cantilever signal bridge at Sandcut, CA, as it begins its climb over Tehachapi. Normally this train is run north up the valley from Delano, CA then east ove... (more)

A westbound manifest paints the scene with light, as it rolls through Afton Canyon along Union Pacific's Cima Subdivision. The bridges in the foreground are one set of three different spans that ... (more)

A BNSF manifest rolls east along the Needles Sub, as it approaches Ludlow.

A BNSF loaded baretable glides around the big curve at Warren several miles north of Mojave, CA.

A Union Pacific stack train follows the Mojave River, as it rolls through the colorful confines of Afton Canyon.

On a clear desert night, a BNSF baretable passes under the signal bridge at MP 377 near Mojave, CA. If you look close, a faint green beam can be seen on the opposite side of the signal bridge, in... (more)