A stack train glints as it snakes east through the desert at Ludlow, CA on the BNSF Needles Sub as the sun sets on a very windy and dusty day in April 2009.
Eastbound on a fine Sunday morning. 7457 is no stranger to the Needles Sub. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=273489&nseq=5
10 units (1st 2 or 3 on line) head east with a short Intermodal.
Rolling nicely down Ash Hill, a WBD stacker swiftly curves into Ludlow at sunset.
BNSF 5162 climbs out of Ludlow, CA with a Barstow - Galesburg manifest.
BNSF 5262 leads the 3rd of 4 eastbound trains past a pile of 5 westbounds waiting due to "Maintenance in the way" at Pisgah.
BNSF 7658 leads a manifest down the hill into Ludlow.
This Eastbound manifest has just passed through Ludlow working up Ash Hill.
