Ash Hill was named in honor of Ben Ash. He was a railroad surveyor who died from lack of water while working out in the Mojave Desert.

I've driven between San Bernardino and Needles countless times in my life, going out to the Colorado River with my family a few times a year. I've spent so many car trips pacing the massive freight trains racing across the desert, and stopping at places like Ludlow, Goffs and Amboy to get out and watch them speed by. It's awesome to see a video like this capturing my favorite part of the desert and my favorite stretch of rail in detail. My particular favorite location is Amboy, the old motel there is a true gem in the middle of nowhere. There's a small bridge about a quarter mile west of the crossing there that I like to stand under when one of the trains goes by overhead, even though it's probably not the safest thing to do, haha! Thank you for documenting this part of desert rail, and I hope it wasn't too hot out there :)

Extraordinary cinema photographs of the trains in these areas. They are apparently lonely, desert lands, which are suddenly traversed by long and powerful freight trains.

Great video, awesome angles. Well done ! Very familiar with Cadiz; retired after 17 years with ARZC. G&W scheme also called "pumpkin paint" & " candy corn color." ARZC green & cream had way more class...

Love your videos. Beautiful scenery, well filmed and professionally narrated.

Out of all programs this one gives a great detail of the subject and makes the viewer understand how the system works- We all drive and seen the trains go by and just ignore the way they work thanks for a trip explanation.

I was stranded in Ludlow for 24 hrs, in a sand storm on my motorcycle 51 years ago. Stayed in a flea bag motel. What a Nothingville. LOL!!!

You have a really nice eye for the photographic arts.

Wonderful videography! I like the line, "...the dynamics should hold." Said that myself some, didn't always work out that way.

First video that I've seen that really gives a sense of how long some of these trains are. It's hard to capture an entire train within a frame. Well done!

To me it will always be the Santa Fe!

Love the various names such as Siberia, Klondike, and Baghdad 👍✌️🇨🇦

Thanks airing and sharing the outstanding video with magnificent locomotives. Railfanning endeavors are prominent. Bliss

Great video, clear images, super narration and wonderful scenery. Your knowledge of the train numbers and cargo/freight types helps the viewers. Very well done. Looks like a great place to spend the day out in the wide opens! Thanks!

Excellent program. I can't afford to travel. So your the next best way of getting out and about via rail. I love trains so it's even better.

I love seeing norfolk southern & CSX locomotives in the drag

Awesome scenery! that most of us just glance at on the way by from the freeway. Thanks for sharing. It looks very warm too!

I lived in Mojave in the summer of 2015. I recall seeing the trains coming and going as they crossed the desert having just crossed over or were about to ascend the Tehachapi Pass and then Bakersfield. Earlier in my life I lived near Sacramento and Roseville. Back then Southern Pacific trains were either heading to or had just come down the Donner Summit grade. My hiking and fishing trips near Blue Canyon and Soda Springs were always so much more memorable as the locomotives made their journey.

Nothing worse than getting ran around. Some great shots! Hope you stay cool out there!

Great work!

Good vid on desert rails. Knew very little of trains road grades out on the high desert. Awesome knowledge 👍

Winters in Needles..away from rain etc in the North....The trains that never stop, are amazing giants traversing a desert so stark, yet beautiful. They seem made for each other.

Nice catch!

Great footage and narration as always, thank you so much for making these. I'm amazed that Genesis can be pulled like that as the link between four locomotives and the rest of the freight train, would have guessed the passenger equipment would be built light and not rated for those forces. Neat catching that one for sure

I love driving down old Route 66 instead of I-40 whenever I can. Driving through those long stretches of desert on a two-lane road and hardly anyone for miles is amazing. Amboy is my pit stop for buying something to drink and seeing how the old motel is doing.

Nice production. You just earned another subscriber.

Ich liebe die Mojave Wüste. Schöne Aufnahmen. Vielen Dank

It would be cool to see UP844 rolling through there with the hammer down

Wow great videos thank you

It's been awhile, but I've ridden my Harley over to Needles and stayed at the Best Western in the east part of town for a couple days just to watch the trains

Great video production and narration! Thanks for putting this up!

Great videos!

I like train videos on KZfaq 👍

I shoot photos out there once in a while , you put a lot of hard work into this , thank you !

I like it!

I work for the guys that run them. A group of very fine fellows, and ladies.

Nice video

What beautiful ❤️ country

Pronunciation for BNSF autorack train is Burlington Northern Santa Fe vehicle VBLU SBD and the initial SBD stan for San Bernardino and meaning of initial BLU Blue Island Illinois. They always running through Ben ash and they making great progress slowly crossing Klondike bridge and another eastbound IM meets and I think they meant to remove milepost from the BNSF timetable.

I love bnsf 😍😍💘💘💘

There's a lot of LOOOOONG grades out there. I've caught a few trains at Kelso and Cima. There's a LOT of nothing out in these remote places.

As a still photographer, i appreciate the wide-open shots on occasion as in the video at the 17-minute mark. There is a time and a place for the tight shot and a time and place for the wide panoramic shot. I am a recent convert to your videos and like them a lot. Keep up the good work Do you have a video on the Main line between Pueblo and Denver , Colorado??

3:53 That train is flying, so I looked up max speed along there, and it is 79 MPH, which it looks like this train must be going.

Ludlow pics remind me that old Spencer Tracy movie Bad Day @ Black Rock---ha ha

Done this route many times… in Run8 lol

30:11 Roy's Cafe has also been featured in the computer game Trainz.

I've heard that Genesee and Wyoming orange paint scheme referred to as the "Reese's Cups" scheme.

Graffiti from 1928 etched into the concrete at13:03! 😀

Can you do a video on panhandle texas. It has fantastic history.

Hey I live close to this! Do Seligman sub next too plz.

I wonder how hot the temperature becomes inside the containers, especially at this time of the year. I have to believe that some products and merchandise don't hold up very well under the heat.

Way Rad

Why do you remind me of the voice author of Pentrex? Are you his son? LOL, either way I love it regardless and appreciate the content!!

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The ghost town is a little eerie. Were those trucks in the abandoned gas station just left there or are they kept as a kind of memorial? Interesting trompe l'oiel artwork (it's more than graffiti) on that derelict hut @4:53.

The older Arizona & California paint scheme looked good, shame they did away with that.

Not seen a loco before with only 3 digits before. Any info on those or what?

12:13 Ex conrail NS locomotive

Look at all that barren open spaces ripe for development

Narrator sounds a lot like the original Pentriex guy.

It must be hard to pay attention in a non-descript landscape.

It seems to be a rehash of Pentrex, same people involved?

Maybe it’s just the perspective with the filming (which is spectacular by the way), but the BNSF and UP locomotives just look bigger (longer) on those western trains than what CSX and NS have/use here on the east coast.

If u seen someone riding on the train would u call train police

What are Norfolk Southern locomotives doing on the BNSF in the Mojave??

Klondike CA: No Gold, No Snow....

It always makes me laugh when I hear the (mis?)pronunciations of cites named after old world European cities. Like here, I thought he was saying Kateys, then I realized it had a D so then I thought maybe it was Kaydeys, never in my wildest dreams did I expect it to be Cadiz. It isn't even close to the Spanish pronunciation of the city it was named after. This is even worse than Madrid. LOL

Dang, if this isn't really good! Following Google Streets and Satellite with you because of your clarity! I have no problem liking and Subbing to with these credentials!