Nomad of Mid-America
Salty
On the rails threading straight across one of earth's greatest lunar landscapes--the sodium-rich dehydrated lakebed forming the Searles Valley--three ravished, tattered, 645ed EMDs, speed lettering chiseling through faded cinder block carbodies, head up a long string of empty 5 bays just getting underway on their evening trip back toward interchange with Union Pacific for another round of generating coal, beating the disappearance of the setting sun by mere moments though unfortunately still too late for the more preferable and fruitful photographic results that are possible here. The Trona Railway operates out of Trona, CA (visible in the distant background), hauling Trona-related products (i.e. soda ash and other assorted goodies) and other materials related to said production, an operation wholly owned by the mining company Searles Valley Minerals and a vital link to the only bit of worthful economic activity in this otherwise barren wasteland.
Salty
On the rails threading straight across one of earth's greatest lunar landscapes--the sodium-rich dehydrated lakebed forming the Searles Valley--three ravished, tattered, 645ed EMDs, speed lettering chiseling through faded cinder block carbodies, head up a long string of empty 5 bays just getting underway on their evening trip back toward interchange with Union Pacific for another round of generating coal, beating the disappearance of the setting sun by mere moments though unfortunately still too late for the more preferable and fruitful photographic results that are possible here. The Trona Railway operates out of Trona, CA (visible in the distant background), hauling Trona-related products (i.e. soda ash and other assorted goodies) and other materials related to said production, an operation wholly owned by the mining company Searles Valley Minerals and a vital link to the only bit of worthful economic activity in this otherwise barren wasteland.