BNSF 7418 leads the Q-RICALT at Sandcut, CA on Union Pacific's Mojave Sub.

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)

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 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)

With a z-train hot on its heels (visible in the distance), a BNSF manifest begins its climb out of the San Joaquin Valley towards the summit at Tehachapi.

A Union Pacific freight train streaks through the night, as it passes through the truss bridges that span the Mojave River at the east end of Afton Canyon.

Having just pulled to a stop with their unit train loaded with soda ash, five Trona Railway EMDs idle in the cool desert air, as the twilight sky signals the end to another day in the high desert ... (more)

A Trona bound coal train rolls through Saltdale on Union Pacific's Lone Pine Branch shortly before beginning the climb for the last 20 miles to Searles, and the junction with the Trona Railway.

The darkness temporarily succumbs to light, as a locomotive's headlight paints the right-of-way and adjacent hills, while the ETD brings up the rear with its signature flashing red light. The sce... (more)

BNSF 797 South begins its climb up the Tehachapi Mountains, as it passes under one of two remaining cantilever signal bridges still in service between Bakersfield and Mojave.

Never thought I'd see this in 2008. Three units still painted in the Santa Fe, red and silver warbonnet scheme, lead an empty grain train as it works upgrade between Caliente and Bealville.

The setting sun breaks through the overcast layer, as this BNSF manifest works up the #1 track at Sandcut.

UP 7774 leads a northbound manifest as it drops down through the north end of Bealville siding and into Tunnel #2. A southbound BNSF intermodal train, that was holding in the siding for this UP m... (more)