We packed up at the Needles Motel 6 and after checking out, we went to MacDonald's and I had hot cakes and sausage. Just as we were leaving Needles, a BNSF westbound stack train left as well. We left Needles on Interstate 40 to US 95 north and west on Goffs Road. We had passed the stack train before we crossed over the tracks west of Needles and a BNSF baretable train near Ibis. We headed west out into the morning bright desert light and set up.
BNSF 7374 West with the baretable train near Bannock. We relocated into more favorable lighting and waited. Soon we saw the stack train. As it moved closer you could feel the power of the train climbing the grade towards us which was a neat experience.
BNSF 7293 west with that stack train, From here we headed through Goffs to the Highway Bridge at Essex. On the way there we passed a truck on the north track so this was going to get interesting.
The crew working on north track with the baretable train stopped at the Essex Crossovers.
BNSF 5055 East at Essex.
BNSF 7374 West at Essex. From there we headed to Cadiz but on the way there another set of trucks had the north track closed between Danby and Cadiz.
BNSF 5225 West at Cadiz on a steel coil train.
BNSF 7478 East at Cadiz.
BNSF 7831 East at Cadiz. Next we headed west through Amboy and Siberia before we saw our coil steel train west of Siberia.
The DPUs of the BNSF 7374 West.
BNSF 5527 East at Siberia. From here we went straight to the grade crossing east of Ludlow.
BNSF 5225 West rolling towards Ludlow.
BNSF 5250 East leaving Ludlow. From here we went to Newberry Springs.
There we found our KCS unit from Monday. From here we went to Dagget.
BNSF 7335 East at Dagget.
BNSF 7374 West at Dagget.
BNSF 5055 West at Dagget. From here we gassed up in Barstow and then went back on Old Highway 66
to Victorville. From there we made it through the Summit Valley and Summit where we saw a westbound BNSF
freight. We decided the last pictures of the trip would be at Blu Cut.
BNSF 7838 West at Blu Cut. We left Blu Cut then took Interstate 15, CA 210 to CA 57 which took me home to Santa Ana. AC Adam left my house to return to El Cajon.
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