BNSF 5402 East on a rainy day

I was in the right turn lane for California City Boulevard when I saw this train's headlight coming around the curve from Sanderson and Mojave Junction.
I pulled into the area that big rigs use to spend the night and broke out the Nikon.
Some are good and some are not that good. It was raining and the camera would focus on the traffic on CA 58 and screw me up a bit.

 It turned out to be an empty grain train. A loaded one this length would need at least two or three more locomotives.

 I would guess that he was moving at track speed which is 65 mph on the BNSF Mojave Sub.

I still love trains. One of these days, I am going to go to Barstow and shoot pictures of trains on the Needles Sub to the east of Barstow and the Cajon Sub west of Barstow going to San Bernardino.

[Updated] If you thought aircraft carriers are immune to rough seas, then watch this: The Aviationist.

This one is pretty cool even if some of it is photoshopped and edited. I do remember seeing "green water" over the bow when I was serving aboard Independence in the mid 1970's. We had some really rough weather on or crossing from Rota, Spain to Norfolk, Virginia at the end of my first deployment.

http://theaviationist.com/2013/11/26/e-2-high-swells/