UP's Yermo to Montclair manifest heads west on the Cajon Sub at Hodge.

UP 6675 leads the ZLBDV across the Cajon Sub just east of Hodge.

A clean UP 4802 leads a West Colton to North Platte freight at Hodge. Unusual to find an SD70 leading on this train.

Having returned to home rails in a resplendent rendition of its bicentennial paint scheme, ATSF 5704 rides the head-end of BNSF Z train as it rolls west near Hodge on its journey to its new home a... (more)

ATSF 5704 has returned to home rails, painted in a spectacular rendition of the bicentennial colors it once wore for the 1976 anniversary, as it rolls west on a Z train ultimately bound for the So... (more)

San Diego to Barstow tonnage behind BNSF 3685 slows to a stop at Hodge, account Barstow being in meltdown.

BNSF and NS power bring up the rear of a Chicago bound stack train at the Hinkley Rd crossing.

An eastbound baretable train heads out of Hodge as they close in on Barstow at sunset.

A pair of NS motors lead a westbound ZAUGSBD7 as it approaches the Hinkley Rd crossing at Hodge.

A pair of NS units lead a westbound QNYCLAC at Hodge on the Cajon Sub.

A westbound Q train heads out of Barstow in the late afternoon.

134 Years In The Making. The desolate, desert community of Hodge, Calif. briefly feels tremors caused by the weight of a 1.2 million pound steam locomotive, UP 4014, as the 1941-built, 4-8-... (more)

BNSF 3275 leads an eastbound stack near Hodge in the early morning.

Two-month-old Amtrak 50 is the first of a pair of P42DCs pulling a seven-car Desert Wind (train 35) around a curve in the Mojave Desert as the train heads toward Los Angeles from Ogden. Th... (more)