Trona Railway has some unique power in which a ex SP SD40T-2 leads a ex UP SD40-2, ex SP SD40T-2, ex UP SD40-2, ex SP SD40R and ex UP SD40-2.

Trona Railway has some unique power in which a ex UP SD40-2 leads a ex SP SD40R, ex UP SD40-2, ex SP SD40T-2, ex UP SD40-2 and ex SP SD40T-2.

Trona Railway has some unique power in which a ex SP SD40T-2 leads a ex UP SD40-2, ex SP SD40T-2, ex UP SD40-2, ex SP SD40R and ex UP SD40-2.

An ex SP tunnel motor leads a string of empty covered hoppers back to Trona from the UP interchange at Searles.

A quiet afternoon in the Searles Valley is momentarily disrupted by the whine of dynamic brakes and the unmistakable rhythm of steel wheels on jointed rail, marking the return of Trona Railway's d... (more)

18 years after Union Pacific's acquisition of the Southern Pacific who would have ever guessed that scarlet & grey SD40s could still be found earning a living in Southern California? Tucked away i... (more)

Six graduates of Electro-motive's La Grande, IL erecting hall, class of the SD40 series, bring the westbound empty Trona 'coal buckets' out of the Searles Valley and towards an interchange with th... (more)

Trona Railway's potash train begins its trip towards Searles, Calif. to interchange with the Union Pacific as dust sets over the Mojave Desert. With air crisp and cold, the sounds of former Southe... (more)

From a lonely vantage point on top of a pile of rocks, seven classic EMD's are seen guiding Trona Railway's daily outbound train of hoppers winding up the grade through the desert approaching The ... (more)

The rumble of classic EMD 645 power reverberates across the Searles Valley on a late summer afternoon as a Trona Railroad turn brings in another load of soda ash for processing. The train is passi... (more)

A Trona Railway freight heads toward the UP connection at Searles at Pinnacles, California, moments before sunset on March 15, 2004. Leading the train is a former Canadian Pacific SD40-2, now Tron... (more)

The shadows grow long in the desert as seven vintage EMD's lead the Trona Railway's daily train to Searles up the grade past the spectacular rock formations known collectively as the Trona Pinnacl... (more)

Trona Railway SD45-2s 3003 and 3001 are on the head-end of a train at Fleta, California, on April 11th, 2004. These units were on lease to the Union Pacific at this time. TRC 3003 is the former ... (more)

An ailing turbo has this aging set of Trona Railway EMDs down to a crawl, as they lug their train loaded with soda ash toward Searles.

TRC 2005 (former SP 8541) sits in the yard at Searles on the former SP Lone Pine Branch as it awaits to take the second section of a loaded coal train back to Trona.