Sunday, April 5, 2015

GP-60 at the head of a Santa Fe freight train on the Needles Subdivision, November 1994


"The Needles Sub [now BNSF] is desert railroading at its best! This sub might represent the harshest stretch of track in the entire USA. The extreme heat of summer, combined with several grueling grades and a severe lack of water make this a most forbidding location in which to railfan...

"The Needles Sub extends from Barstow, CA in the west to Needles, CA in the east, well over 150 miles of the desert railroading at its prime."

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