Heading for Mojave, empty coal train CTRSV-06 from Trona passes through the remote outpost of Saltdale on former SP Jawbone Branch.

Heading southwest out of Searles Jct., empty coal train CTRSV-06 rounds a curve in the remote desert landscape as it approaches US HWY 395 on the former SP Jawbone Branch.

Classic 2nd generation EMD power from SP and UP seems right at home as the engines lug a train of potash empties across the floor of the Searles Valley near the Pinnacles natural landmark.

Heading back to Trona, former SP and UP power haul a string of potash empties as the train approaches the Searles Station Cutoff.

Union Pacific's Brooklyn trailers wind through the curves at Lang near the west end of Soledad Canyon. A grungy SP heritage locomotive is trailing last in today's consist.

With a destination at LAUPT only a couple of hours away, the late afternoon sun shines on detouring southbound Amtrak train #11 as it negotiates the switches at bottom end of the yard in Mojave.

U.S. economical woes are represented on this BNSF Z train in early 2009, but nonetheless it makes for a pretty sight at Essex sprinting across the high desert toward Barstow on the Needles Sub.

In the high desert east of Mojave, a general merchandise freight works eastbound toward Barstow on the ex-ATSF Mojave Sub near Bissell.

Under cloudy skies, an eastbound doublestack with a newer GEVO leading approaches Sullivan's Curve in Cajon Pass. The new mainline is adjacent to the old north track which the train is traveling o... (more)

Running right on the advertised, eastbound Amtrak train #4 streaks by the Silverwood crossovers as it nears the summit of Cajon Pass on a chilly fall evening.

Passing the diesel shops and Metrolink plaform at Commerce, a westbound doublstack has only a few more miles to travel before reaching its final destination at the Los Angeles harbor.

There's no shortage of power here as an eastbound BNSF doublestack with ten Dash 9 locomotives begins its journey out of Los Angeles passing the station platform at Commerce on the San Bernardino ... (more)

With a colorful assortment of motive power, an eastbound manifest passes through Goffs and will soon be arriving Needles for a crew change.

On a chilly winter night in the Los Angeles basin, a pair of classic Santa Fe GP30's are tied down for the evening across from the Commerce Metrolink station.

Just a few weeks out of the factory, UP 7897 brings a westbound doublestack through the Silverwood control point on the Cajon Sub with remnants of an early winter storm covering the surrounding la... (more)