BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA), with run-through Norfolk Southern power (ES44AC 8104 in Heritage paint for the old Lehigh Valley Railroad a... (more)

BNSF train Q-NYCLAC6-08L (Guaranteed Service Intermodal, New York NY to Los Angeles CA), with run-through Norfolk Southern power (ES44AC 8104 in Heritage paint for the old Lehigh Valley Railroad a... (more)

In the early 1970s, the Santa Fe Railway expanded their yard in Barstow, in southern California’s Mojave Desert, by extending it – basically building a whole new yard – west of the original ... (more)

While Santa Fe train 891, the eastbound Super C, spent a few minutes cutting out a troublesome diesel while in Barstow, I had the time to take detail photos of the various markings on ATSF ... (more)

Three Santa Fe Alco PA's pose in front of the Barstow Diesel Shop. Photo from my collection, no photographer information listed on slide.

Running 13 hours behind schedule due to mechanical issues in Colorado, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief approaches Barstow to perform its station stop, on May 10, 2021.

V-BLUSBD pulls into Barstow with a pair of NS units on the head end.

The big news on the Union Pacific back in the Summer of 1984 was the reactivation of most of their Centennial fleet of DDA40X "double diesels". Near the very end of their short lived return to se... (more)

Santa Fe GP38 3504 rolled out of the General Motors Electro-Motive Division factory in McCook* IL in June 1970, wearing the ATSF’s attractive blue and yellow "pinstripe" scheme. This ... (more)

Eleven-year-old ES44AC 6233 is among a number of locomotives receiving some TLC at the BNSF’s Barstow Locomotive Shops. (Barstow, California – February 16, 2018). Photographed on railroad ... (more)

History at Barstow For the first time in history, an active 4000' class steam locomotive calls on the original, 1911-built Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger station/Harvey House,... (more)

Santa Fe 1232 and Santa Fe 30 at the Barstow diesel shops.

Santa Fe Railway’s Topeka shops built Baggage Car 3922 in 1958, and in 1970 it was one of ten Baggage Cars to be rebuilt into Steam Generator Cars in order to provide steam when steam line-equip... (more)

In 1972, Seaboard Coast Line, Frisco and the Santa Fe operated a special promotional train from Richmond, California, to Richmond, Virginia to promote improved transcontinental service, thanks to ... (more)