BNSF train D-BARLAC3-30I, a movement of light engines (BNSF ES44DC 7889, ES44C4 6941, Dash 9-44CW 5500, ES44AC 6167, ES44C4 6733 and ES44C4 6949) traveling from Barstow to Los Angeles, makes a bri... (more)
In 1976 SP borrowed some BN Locotrol Masters and slave cars in an early effort to institute unmanned helpers. The only testing I saw was on Beaumont Hill. Evidently it didn't work out. No compl... (more)
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)
As BNSF Railway ethanol unit train U-HERWAT7-22A makes its way to Watson, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, from Hereford, Texas, it meets BNSF train B-LACLAC6-26D (Los Angeles to Full... (more)
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train H-KCRI1-23 rolls into Barstow, where the crew that has handled this train across the Needles Sub, having boarded in Needles, will get off to allow a fres... (more)
Rolling west through Basta toward the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is a BNSF intermodal train. Santa Fe GP60 4021, not yet rebranded with BNSF reporting marks, teamed with an ATSF Dash 8-4... (more)
When I climbed on top of this hill, I saw for the first time the Santa Fe derailment that happened just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass, and at first glance it looked like it was from an HO mod... (more)
On a dreary November morning, BNSF ES44DC No. 7816 switches from main 3 to main 2 as it leads its train down from the Summit of Cajon Pass
3 new ES44ACH's lead an eastbound SLBELPC at Blue Cut.
A quartet of GE ES44C4s delivered in 2023 lead an eastbound local through Escalon Ca.
A stack train climbs through the cut on the California side of the Colorado River immediately after crossing over from Arizona.
An intermodal crests the summit at Goffs after a long climb up from Needles.
Rolling downgrade towards Needles alongside what is to soon become a third mainline track.
A BNSF intermodal fights upgrade through Ibis towards the summit at Goffs.
Power for the Boron local about to begin switching duties at Boron.
