With the desert light fading fast, BNSF 680 glides through the curves approaching East Siberia on the BNSF's Needles Subdivision.
BNSF 5482 leads an eastbound intermodal train up the grade approaching Ludlow as it meets BNSF 7755 heading westbound on the Needles sub.
A hi-priority manifest train bound for Barstow, navigates the curves outside of Ludlow, CA on its way west in the morning.
Intermodal and Dash 9's are most prevalent on the Needles Sub, but did manage to catch this one with an old warbonnet. This is a westbound rounding the curve just out of CP Ludlow.
Eastbound stacks on the approach to CP Ludlow winds through the S curves.
Taken along the Needles Sub, "Plain Jane" rolls through CP Ludlow on it's trek across the Mojave Desert.
Running westward through the big gorge at East Ash Hill. Well big in California terms!
A westbound mixed frieght makes it's way through Ludlow.
An eastbound z-train passes through Ash Hill with BNSF's lucky engine 7777 leading.
The Crazy Train, BNSF 5150, passes through the control signals at Ash Hill as firstlight bounces of the side of the train.
The nice thing about the desert is the chance to get a complete shot of the whole train. Here a westbound ethanol train led by a warbonnet, then a KCS Southern Belle and a TFM engine head through ... (more)
A westbound climbs the step grade at Klondike taking the huge S curve towards Ash Hill.
A westbound stack train makes it's way up the steep grade from Siberia into Klondike.
Four BNSF GEs lead an eastbound freight across the Mojave at Ludlow. Interstate 40 can be seen in the distance behind the train.
BNSF 4793 leads an eastbound stack train across the Mojave desert at Ludlow as seen from the Route 66 grade crossing. more)
