A rapidly moving winter storm is moving eastward across the Mojave Desert. Dramatic clouds were forming just as quickly as the sun would start to set behind them. The potential of dramatic lightin... (more)
BNSF 987 leads a Chicago, IL to Stockton, CA intermodal train as it slowly grinds up the 1.4% grade out of Needles on Goffs Hill. These "H1" painted Dash-9s have started to make a comeba... (more)
Mixed freight for Kansas City heads east on the Needles Sub near Homer.
BNSF 6976 leads an Alliance, TX to San Bernardino, CA Z-train through the new control point (CP) of Homer along BNSF's Needles Sub. This control point was added with crossover switches for the new... (more)
A Stockton, CA to Atlanta, GA Q-train runs down Goffs Hill on the newly built third main track as glint lightning reflects off of the BNSF 6818.
BNSF C44-9W 4120 is on the approach to Homer with an eastbound manifest.
BNSF C44-9W 4120 teams up with CN SD70M-2s 8000 and 8935, BNSF C44-9W 4445 and CP AC4400CW 9727 leading a Barstow-Pasco manifest east on the Needles Sub at Homer.
BNSF C44-9W 4120 leads an eastbound manifest train off of Main #2 at Homer.
Barstow-Pasco freight heads east on the Needles Sub... quite the route to get to Pasco, WA!
BNSF C44-9W 5375 leads a Barstow-Kansas City manifest east on Main #2 approaching Homer. BNSF has been diligently working on triple tracking from Needles to Goffs which should help fluidity in the... (more)
A NS Dash-9 leads a San Bernardino long-pool Z-train across the Mojave Desert as it grinds up the 1.4% grade of Goffs Hill at Homer.
The DP motors shove a heavy westbound stack up the 1.4% grade of Goffs Hill as an eastbound Q train races down the hill into Needles at dusk.
EMD power leads this Belen to Barstow manifest near Homer as it climbs the stiff grade to the summit at Goffs.
BNSF 8549 leads a Springfield, MO to San Bernardino vehicle train up Goffs Hill at Homer.
Part of the way up Goffs Hill, in the Mojave Desert between Bannock and Homer, a westbound stacker is meeting an eastbound TOFC.