... Finally catching up to the engine power near Lenwood. I took this through the window of the van as they slowed for a red at Lenwood...
...BNSF 5228 west was holding at Lenwood in front of our pace train. Here it is proceeding passed the control signal....
...As we gassed up, cleaned the windows and continued east, this UP work train was sitting on the BNSF just east of Dagget with UP 5387 shiney and new on the point. This was taken as we passed by on the 41...
...BNSF 4113 gets a green signal and proceed's east. At wich time we also continue east to Barstow to meet up with 3 of the group who lodged in town the night before....
...The searchlight style signals for the Eastbound control block at Lenwood ...
...Thursday before the trip it was reported that Amtrak's train # 4 - the Southwest Cheif had to set out one of it's engines at Pisgah. Apparently it had a melted rear axel on the rear truck. In the process of setting out the engine the crew rolled over a derail and did just that - derailed a car... the engine was still sitting on the siding being overlooked by a repair crew...
...Another 3 of the 11 in our group participated in the customary name calling and finger pointing of container cars while being overtaken by butterflies in the field of wild flowers...
...We had passed a parade of stopped eastbound trains, so we decided to stop at Ludlow first to take advantage of the morning light and the nice sweeping curves of the area. Here are 4 or the 11 in our group up on the rock hill...
...The BNSF 4850 leads the Cadiz interchange L-CAL1163 into Ludlow...
...Next through was BNSF 4116 with a nice looking manifest train trailing as they round the curve heading into the Ludlow S curves...
...Another angle on BNSF 4116 before we continued east...
...We were made aware of two grain trains heading west and just after passing Bagdad we caught site of the first one. We pulled over on route 66 and all hopped out to get images of this train. The consist could not have been more interesting with it's Orange - Green - Orange arrangment...
...The Fifth engine back in the consist was this BNSF SD70Mac ... a rare visitor to Socal...
...The grill on Jeff's GMC was populated with wild monarch butterflies that were swarming the desert....
... 6 of the 11 watch and photograph the grain train as it passes...
... We turned around and headed back west to East Siberia.....
...But we were not in time to catch the lead of the grain train .. just the DPU as they got a red at West Siberia...
... And a low and wide angle image of the BNSF 7677 as they pulled away. We continued east to Cadiz ...
... While at East Siberia we were met first with BNSF 4758 heading through with a 6 engine consist....
... Then we had a westbound autorack train roll up and stop while we all stretched out legs. This had a new GE ES44DC on the point...
... Jeff, the Dragging Equipment Detector sign and BNSF 7677 ...
... Scott pays tribute to the Statue of Liberty Railfanning ...
... BNSF 7691 heading east passed Cadiz as I quickly grabbed my camera to capture ths image as I am eating my lunch...
...The Cadiz interchange train was cutting off their cars for the Arizona and California Railroad as we arrived. They supplied us with a case of bottled water in kindness...
... We set up for lunch at Cadiz. While there we were passed by several east and westbound trains. BNSF 810 led this train passed up heading west...
... A couple sets of wheels were hanging around the tracks at Cadiz, this image got a photoshop patchjob...
... BNSF 5037 west coming through Cadiz as another railfan captures his to the east ...
... An NS ghost leads a westbound JB Hunt train ...
... Camp Bass at Cadiz where the ATCS and shade are ...
... We packed up Camp Bass and continued east in search of Dave. We found Dave at a spot near Fenner and soon after continuing on towards Fenner we encountered our second westbound grain train ...
... Gordon captures an "earthworm" image as it passes by us ...
... We stopped at the grade crossing in the town of Amboy to capture a few more images of the grain train with BNSF 5372 on the point ...
... Mini ATCS is brought online after a short circuit on a power cable leaves the other system a little short of power ...
... The rest of the group, minus Dave who sped off west after Amboy, seen here at Bagdad ...
...We stopped near Klondike to catch the BNSF 4618 taking the split grade into Ash Hill...
.... then over west to the grade crossing at National Trails Hwy for another image of BNSF 4618 coming west...
... We continued back west and stopped near Bagdad to capture BNSF 4618 heading west with a manifest train...
... our final stop on the trip was Dagget where we found the westbound grain train waiting to proceed through Barstow...
... This UP manifest sitting on the UP line that leads out to Las Vegas from Dagget was the last image captured on the trip. From here it was off to Fullerton Station and points between.
