With a quartet of BNSF locomotives, westbound loaded grain train G GDNBAR8 12A thunders west through Nepo, California on a beautiful, winter morning. Photo taken on January 17, 2022.

#95 under the stars.

The 600-699 series were the first ATSF units delivered with Hi-Adhesion trucks. BNSF renumbered ATSF 666 to 599 on 06/30/02 (666 is a biblical reference to the Anti-Christ)

Meltdown at Barstow. The meltdown that is the BNSF Railway right now was more than evident at Barstow on June 25, as seen here from the Yucca Ave. overpass. From left to right: 1) an eastbo... (more)

An otherwise nice broadside of the Seaboard Coast Line U36B 1776, the first of hundreds of locomotives painted for the American Bicentennial in the 1970s and operating an all-Bicentennial train (2... (more)

view of the old Barstow yard as seen from the east

A westbound QPEALAC gets underway as it departs Barstow at Valley Jct.

BNSF 606 with a nice lashup await a crew to take this train north over the Mojave Sub. Most Northern California trains are tied down due to a derailment in the Tehachapi Mountains earlier in the w... (more)

Night fever.

ATSF C40-8W 826 built 4-5/1992; acquired by CN Rail in July 2010, and numbered 2148, still in service.

Santa Fe is still King. BNSF 699, a C44-9W still wearing its original warbonnet paint that it received in September of 1994 when it was delivered to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway,... (more)

SF 5621 and 3215 at the SF Barstow shops under going repairs.

SF 5940 sits in a storage line along with many other units during the winter of 1981 when a the recession of the time cause a major decrease in business.

Forty-five minutes after arriving at the eastern end of BNSF Railway’s Barstow Yard, train Q-NSABAR6-20’s power cutoff and moved to the engine facility. Canadian Pacific SD70ACU 6644, which w... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NSABAR6-20, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal train operating from Norfolk Southern’s Ashland Avenue Yard in Chicago, Illinois, to Barstow, California, has arrived at the east... (more)