Approaching Ordway in San Timoteo Canyon an eastbound UP auto train tackles the grade toward Beaumont Hill.

A crisp Fall morning along the Yuma Sub in San Timoteo Canyon finds an eastbound UP auto train tackling the grade toward Beaumont Hill.

Near the Ice Deck siding in Loma Linda, an eastbound UP container train begins the climb on Beaumont Hill.

With shadows beginning to encroach the desert landscape, a heavy westbound unit grain train climbs up the north track in the early evening at Klondike on the Needles Sub.

Evening is setting in across the desert as a westbound BNSF doublestack approaches Siberia on the Needles Sub.

The BNSF Needles dispatcher clears the signal for this westbound BNSF container train pulling hard from a stop at Amboy. The train will soon be tackling the stiff grade on Ash Hill. If you look cl... (more)

Soon to be tackling the stiff grade on Ash Hill, a westbound mixed freight winds through Siberia on BNSF's Needles Sub.

Early afternoon in the Mojave desert east of Ludlow finds an eastbound doublestack working through the Klondike area on the old Needles district.

Soon to be tackling the stiff grade on Ash Hill, a westbound mixed freight winds through Siberia on BNSF's Needles Sub.

A pair of BNSF ES44DC's power westbound containers through the control point at Siberia on the Needles Sub.

A westbound manifest train approaches Siberia in the late afternoon along BNSF's Needles Sub.

With shadows beginning to encroach the desert landscape, a heavy westbound unit grain train climbs up the north track in the early evening at Klondike on the Needles Sub.

Westbound harbor tonnage works through the curves at Siberia on BNSF's Needles Subdivision, and will soon be tackling the grade on Ash Hill.

Just east of Ludlow a westbound BNSF container train drops downgrade from Ash Hill.

A brisk November morning in the Mojave Desert finds a westbound general merchadise train Nearing the summit of Ash Hill on the old Santa Fe Needles District.