Not museum pieces yet! Having finished their work at Rice the Mojave Desert again echoes the chant of 6 second generation EMDs as they bring westbound tonnage on ARZC train 708 across the desert t... (more)
Returning light power from their eastern interchange with the BNSF at Castle Hot Springs, Arizona & California power, this day including a pair of RCPE SD40-2s (6434 and 6414) sandwiching a exSP S... (more)
Westbound double stacks contend with the stiff 1.4% continuous grade on the climb out of Needles, CA and the Colorado River Valley at Java on BNSF's Needles Subdivision. The arduous & continuous p... (more)
Streetcars!
On a fine afternoon in the Mojave Desert BNSF's Q NYCLAC experienced a mechanical issue which would require helpers to be called out of Needles. A few hot Z trains were run around ... (more)
Amidst the charred landscape on the western slope of Cajon Pass a monster westbound BNSF stack train carefully drops down grade with its head end approaching Pine Lodge on the former 'north track'... (more)