===== All Aboard….. In the Mojave Desert, on the south side of Joshua Tree, just a half-mile or so from the main road that leads to the Joshua Tree National Park, tucked away in a canyon, almost hidden from the one million plus visitors that drive by every year sits a very interesting, inconspicuous […]
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A sign touting the best cheeseburger around lets you know you are approaching the eucalyptus-shaded desert oasis of Nipton, Calif. Gently situated on the sloping bajada leading down to the Ivanpah Valley, Nipton is a tiny spot of green in the vast eastern Mojave Desert west of Searchlight, Nevada, just ten miles off Interstate 15
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Imagine yourself sipping a beverage on the vestibule of a vintage passenger rail car. Or sitting in a restored dome car watching the desert roll by as you climb the stark, Joshua Tree-studded Cajon Pass from Union Station in Los Angeles to Barstow, Calif. ARONCO Leasing Co. in conjunction with Western America Rail Museum, Barstow
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Fall is fast approaching and Barstow’s Western America Railroad Museum — WARM — is gearing up for their annual Railfest on Oct. 16th & 17th. This year there is a special addition to the museum’s collection of rail cars. A BIG addition. WARM recently acquired a vintage business car from the Arizona & California Railroad
I have been photographing trains, I think, forever. I remember taking a snapshot, with my dad’s old camera, of a big black train tearing by while I was still in high school. There is this adrenaline rush, a natural high as the train passes; horns screaming, crossing bells going off, the ground rumbling. Did you
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It was the little engine that could — and did — for 66 years. And 38 years after it was rebuilt in Santa Fe Railway’s Cleburne, Texas, shop, BNSF 1460 officially retired in December 2008. Rail fans affectionately call the little locomotive the “Beep,” and it has found a new home at the Western America
