On a very early April 23rd, 2022; I decided to take a drive up to the Needles sub to both clear my head out and to get some more railfanning in on the line. I wanted to spend about 2.5 hours at Amboy and the crossing outside of Ludlow, but I ended up getting a bit impatient at Amboy after the first train passed through and decided to pack up to head out to the crossing outside of Ludlow. On the drive down there I came up on 3 other eastbound freights that I would have caught if I waited a bit longer, but didn’t. I also ended up stopping by Barstow for about an hour, to wait for the sun to set as to not deal with the sun in my eyes on the drive back and I ended up catching an ex-BN SD40-2 on one of the freight trains cueing up to leave the yard. Overall a good railfanning day for me, caught a total of 4 NS tuxedo locomotives that day.
Apologies for the wind noise in the video, some clips will be better than others in terms of wind noise
Amboy crossing:
- Eastbound BNSF grain train (00:16): BNSF 4063, 3929, and 6565
Ludlow crossing:
- Eastbound BNSF intermodal (02:11): BNSF 7117, 6571, 8232, and 8331
- Eastbound BNSF intermodal (04:32): BNSF 4768, 5263, and 5603. DPU: BNSF 7108
- Eastbound BNSF manifest (06:31): BNSF 3925 and 7770
- Eastbound BNSF intermodal (08:18): BNSF 3789, 7743, 7789, 3276, and 3908
- Westbound BNSF intermodal (13:10): BNSF 3852 and 6783, NS 4287 and 9650, BNSF 4265, 7013, and 5636
Barstow Amtrak station:
- Eastbound BNSF manifest (15:39): BNSF 4151 and 6638, NS 9565 and 7627, and BNSF 1922
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