A westbound enters the cut at West Oro Grande

WAMX 3845 & WAMX 3510 are the assigned plant power for Riverside Cement. WAMX 3845 comes from SP heritage and WAMX 3510 has WP heritage. Photographed at 15:38.

WP Heritage unit 1983 leads a Westbound stack train with the SP Heritage unit 1996 and the Olympic unit 2002.

Interesting seeing a SD9043MAC lead this stack train west as it enters Victorville after passing the Riverside Cement Plant in the background.

K LAG1-26 With UP 7625, GECX 2010, GECX 90, UP 4470 UP 8559, UP 8918 & UP 1885. 91 Loads, 5688 Tons 6754 Feet. Photographed at 07:48. Looking good after being freshly washed for the GE display at ... (more)

Bangor & Aroostook GP38 362 is now in service at Riverside Cement in Oro Grande, California. Built in December 1967 for the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line as their number 2003 (later becoming... (more)

Riverside Cement being the predominant industry at this location is keeping Oro Grande on the map I would imagine. There is nothing else here except housing and a liquor store and some farming. In... (more)

Approaching the double crossovers at East Oro Grande that have given so many Microsoft Train Simulator engineers broken-knuckle-induced headaches, BNSF 5152 cruises west with a 'P' train along "Hi... (more)

WAMX GP35m 3845 (ex-QSR 508, ex-SP 6329, ex-SP 6602, nee-SP 7705) and BAR GP38 362 (ex-BAR 91, ex-CR 7663, nee-PRSL 2003) shuffle cars of cement at the Riverside Cement Company in Oro Grande, CA.

Union Pacific ES44AC 5405, only a few month old, leads a westbound double-stack train through Oro Grande, California, on its way to Los Angeles.

A powerful consist leads these baretables west aproaching the Mojave River crossing.

Westbound, headed for LA.

Nikon D70 70-200mm

BNSF 4978, BNSF 4521, BNSF 777, NS 9781 and NS (ex-CR) 6773 lead a train through Oro Grande, just north of Victorville, California.

Blue bonnet 6358 leads a ballast train stopped on a siding north of Victorville, CA.