The unique ATSF "Beep" sits silently on display at the Western American Railroad Museum at Barstow's Amtrak station. This experimental rebuild combined a Baldwin VO-1000 with EMD Geep me... (more)

Santa Fe, AT&SF SD40-2 5191, leads an eastbound out on the mainline at, Barstow, California. June 23, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

UP, Union Pacific SD40-2 3183 leads C30-7 2849 U30C 2510 SD40-2 3580 eastbound on the Santa Fe at Barstow, California. June 23, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

BNSF 9210 leads an eastbound grain empty at Hutt, as it enters Barstow yard.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

BNSF intermodal train bound for Los Angeles, accelerating out from Barstow yard

Union Pacific light power going eastbound through Barstow station

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 past the old Santa Fe passenger station in Barstow in a westbound Union Pacific freight, led by DDA40X 6912, SD40-2 8038 and DDA40X 6931. This train hopped on to the Santa Fe's Los Angeles... (more)

Westbound intermodal approaches Yermo Yard with Afton Canyon's being lit up by the evening Sun

FLAGSTAFF AZ July 6 1986 — Santa Fe GP35u 2904 awaits its next assignment. EMD built the unit in August 1956 as GP35 1404 and delivered it with a blue body and yellow ends (bookends). In the Mar... (more)

CP far away from home at Barstow Yard.

A glorious Californian sunset highlights a couple of locomotives perfoming switching duties in Barstow yard

It's a typical day on BNSF's Southern Transcon as a westbound intermodal train, led by the BNSF 3787, cruises into Barstow and passes an anything but typical train that is calling on the original ... (more)