Crossing into the State of California, BNSF C44-9W No. 5273 leads a stack train across the Colorado River from Arizona, westbound on the Santa Fe Transcon to Barstow and points west.
AT&SF 5069, is west bound at Needles, CA. 6-29-1982
Framed by a palm tree, BNSF ES44C4 No. 6924 idles in Santa Fe's Needles Yard, waiting for a fresh crew before departing west for Barstow.
Crossing into California from Arizona, a westbound container train passes over the Colorado River via Santa Fe's iconic Topock Bridge.
After a long day of work, the crew of a westbound "K" stack train slowly rolls into the BNSF terminal in Needles where a new crew would take the train to Barstow.
Passing through a moonlike landscape a BNSF Z train has just departed the Needles CA crew change headed for AZ and points east.
A westbound BNSF intermodal train crosses the Colorado River Bridge between Topock, Arizona, and Needles, California, on March 10, 2005.
NS 7564 leads this westbound auto train up out of the Colorado River valley near Java on the Needles Sub.
In the early morning light, eastbound C44-9W No. 4586 leads a container train across the western edge of the BNSF Seligman Subdivision just east of Needles, California. In a few short moments, thi... (more)