TRC 2005 (former SP 8541) sits in the yard at Searles on the former SP Lone Pine Branch as it awaits to take the second section of a loaded coal train back to Trona.

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

UP 8831 and UP 8675 at Searles.

Arriving at Searles, 6 Trona EMD's will set out there train for the UP before returning to Trona.

Running light after having shoved a set of international cars up to Inyokern on the remnants of the old UP Lone Pine Branch, the Trona turn heads back into Searles to build its train of empties.

The weekday Trona turn to Searles comes around the curve passing an old water tank, a vestige of a time when there was a town here and locomotives were serviced. This is yet another shot I owe the... (more)

The inbound Searles Turn passes a holdover from the steam era in the form of a water tank at Searles. This location was once a bustling interchange between the Southern Pacific and Trona Railway. ... (more)

A train of empty hoppers awaits a "headlight meet" that won't be coming for more than 24 more hours in Searles. This long train is but one of three long cuts of empties awaiting pickup by the Tron... (more)

The sun has already set as a Trona Railway train smokes it up as it arrives at Searles, California, on March 15, 2004, powered by six big EMDs with Union Pacific and Santa Fe ancestry. Darkness wi... (more)

TRC 2008 arrives at Searles after sunset. The train will interchange with Union Pacific and return to Trona.

It's lonely out there. The picture was taken from over a mile away. I count 98 cars: 3 tank cars and 95 covered hoppers. The potash hoppers would be empty in this direction. Searles, a few mile... (more)

Looking down from above the Searles tunnel finds the Trona Railway with a empty coal train that they will shove back in the clear for the UP to take to Mojave later on in the evening.

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)

5 Trona EMD's ease there train into the yard at Searles to interchange traffic with the Union Pacific.

Trona units go about switching duties at Searles on a late November afternoon.