With a new crew on board for the trip across the Mojave desert, BNSF 635 picks up speed as it passes through Barstow on a spring morning.

Bringing up the rear of an empty grain train as DPU, UP 5811 is passing through the small town of Lenwood, just west of Barstow along on the Cajon Sub.

Heading west with a Los Angeles basin hauler, a tattered looking UP SD60M passes through West Pomona in the late afternoon.

Basking in the afternoon sunlight, UP 5373 sits parked just west of Yermo, waiting for a crew to take its train west into Los Angeles.

Near Klondike on the Needles Sub, BNSF 983 is stopped on the south main account traffic ahead, and waits for the signal to continue its journey east.

Early morning light at West Daggett glints off BNSF 5156 and company as they power their train west toward Barstow.

On a clear spring morning, BNSF 5023 makes its way eastward with intermodal through Sullivan's Curve while a southbound UP manifest is stopped in Canyon siding waiting for a signal to proceed down... (more)

Approaching milepost 58.2 on the north track of the Cajon Sub, UP 6779 heads east with a unit hopper train on a clear spring morning.

Perfoming the type of duty Santa Fe originally intended, a pair of GP60M's, along with a B unit and leaser, lead a stack train west down the south track in Cajon Pass near milepost 58.2.

In primer dress, NS 9909 brings a westbound stack train down the north track in Cajon Pass and past the intermediate signal at milepost 58.2.

Passing through a cut about two miles south of Hiland on the former SP Palmdale Cutoff, UP 4130 leads a southbound mixed freight headed for West Colton on a spring afternoon.

On a steady descent, UP 6772 south brings a string of hoppers full of trona loads down Cajon Pass on the former SP Palmdale Cutoff, just below the siding of Canyon.

Returning for yet another loading of rocks at Cabazon, UP 5743 heads east through San Timoteo Canyon near Ordway with UP's rock train of southern California, operated exclusively for Robertson's R... (more)

Heading up a solid unit hopper train, UP 6772 west passes through Ontario on the former SP Alhambra Sub, with trona loads destined for export at Long Beach.

With stacks and high priority TOFC in tow, BNSF 4431 east is making good time as it passes Lugo on the Cajon Sub, having just crested the summit of Cajon Pass a few minutes before.