Now in a vestibule, I captured our train curving down the Summit Valley.
Summit Valley.
Rounding the curves.
Approaching Lugo.
Nearing the end of Summit Valley.
Hesperia, where the line to Cushenberry takes off, and I rode that line on a Pacific Railroad Society excursion in May 1985.
Rounding yet another curve.
Proceeding down the grade towards the Frost flyover.
Passing underneath the Frost flyover.
We took this curve to reach Frost.
Mojave Narrows Regional Park.
Proceeding to the Upper Mojave Narrows.
Traversing the Upper Mojave Narrows.
Out of the narrows and into Victorville.
Passing through Victorville.
Our passage through the Lower Mojave Narrows.
Curving into Oro Grande.
Oro Grande as seen from the train.
The ostrich farm just north of Oro Grande. After that I walked the train to see who else was on board.
We stopped to wait for a BNSF pilot engineer to arrive.
A westbound BNSF stack train near Barstow.
Once the BNSF pilot engineer boarded. we made our way into the railroad's Barstow Yard.
The Barstow dieesel servicing facility.
Our train travelled the Barstow balloon track to switch direction.
We pulled down to pass the signal before waiting for the green to reverse into the station.
We crossed over and began our reverse move.
Westbound fuel racks.
Barstow Hill overlooking Barstow Yard.
The eastbound fuel racks.
The Barstow station was ahead.
Entering the track to the station.
We passed under the road bridge.
The Barstow Flyer had arrived in Barstow. We detarined and joined the line to get lunch. I dislike boxed lunches such as this because while it was a roast beef sandwich, it included cheese, to which I am allergic. Since I could not eat that, I bought a hot dog instead and we sat in the shade on a hot day before I walked out to get a picture of our train.
The Barstow Flyer at rest. After we rested in the shade, Bill and I walked up onto the bridge over the tracks and waited in the shade of the bridge structure for some trains.
The Barstow Flyer.
Our first westbound BNSF headed into the yard.
This eastbound BNSF piggyback train was bound for points east.
The yard switcher pulled some cars out of the yard.
As the switcher pulled east, BNSF 4431 West made its way into the yard.
A westbound Union Pacific stack train.
An eastbound BNSF stack train.
BNSF 1000 East was an empty coal train. We walked back to the station so Bill could see some of the equipment that the Western American Railroad Museum has collected.
Santa Fe SWBLW 1460 known as the "Beep". It was built by Baldwin in 1943 as Santa Fe V0-1000 2220 and rebuilt into Baldwin-Geep hybrid in 1970. It was one-of-a-kind.
United States Marine Corps 44 ton switcher 268236 built by General Electric, year unknown.
Santa Fe FP45 95, nee Santa Fe 105 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1967. We then toured the exhibits inside the museum.
