A Belen-Barstow manifest leans into the S curve at Ludlow behind BNSF ES44C4 7069.

Chicago-Stockton stacks are westbound at Ludlow on BNSF's busy "Transcon".

BNSF train Q NSABAR6 05 heads through Ludlow, CA westbound on Main #1 behind an NS motor.

Looking quite out of place from the eastern states its owner's trackage plies, two General Electric Norfolk Southern units are seen deep in the Mojave desert as they race through Ludlow on the poi... (more)

As the sun begins to clear the hills behind the photographer, BNSF's M-BARBEL1-24A rounds the curves at Ludlow with a manifest bound for Belen, NM.

A duo of foreign Norfolk Southern motors provide the horsepower needed to help navigate the twists and grades of the BNSF Needles Subdivision as temperatures reach well over 100 degrees across the... (more)

Mixed in among the nearly constant parade of Intermodal trains on BNSF Railway Needles Sub are a few "loose car" freights. One of these is seen there, as train H-BELBAR 3-12 (a High Priority Merc... (more)

BNSF train S-PEASCO3-10, an Intermodal Stack heading to Long Beach CA from Pearland TX, rounds the curve at the west end of Ludlow, on the railway’s Needles Sub. This train is led by an ES44C4 ... (more)

After stopping to allow hot BNSF train Z-NBYWSP9-14U to thread its way around eastbound BNSF S-LBELPC1-13 and westbound Q-ALTLAC1-12, engineer JM Rossi is accelerating BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5505 gets t... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA) is running nearly 84 hours behind schedule as it rounds the curve at Milepost 694 on the BNSF’s Needles Su... (more)

On March 3, 2021 an eastbound manifest train derailed near Ludlow, putting 44 cars on the ground. It took a few days to get rail traffic restored but almost 2 months later there are the remains of... (more)

Early morning at Ludlow finds an eastbound manifest passing through the small desert outpost.

A westbound manifest snakes its way up hill out of Ludlow with a foreign visitor in tow on a windy Saturday afternoon.

An eastbound Santa Fe freight rolls into Ludlow, California, while crossing the Mojave Desert between Barstow and Needles on March 8, 1995.

Four-of-a-kind—and they aren’t Dash 9s
A matching quartet of Super Fleet GE C40-8W Nos. 909, 833, 802 and 878, power a Santa Fe stack train through the Mojave Desert east of Ludlow,... (more)