Desert High Iron
If you love the phrase “high desert, high iron”, you’ve come to the right place! I document operations of the Union Pacific and BNSF as well as Metrolink in or around the Mojave desert. Videos are primarily shot along the Union Pacific Mojave subdivision and Metrolink Valley Subdivision!
Videos are posted on weekend, with extra clips occasionally scattered throughout the rest of the week.
Check me out on Instagram @desert_high_iron for my photography work!
UP Saugus Local (LOF42) Serving Weyerhauser In Santa Clarita!
Trains In Jacksonville, FL ~ FEC Railway, SD40s, & The Auto Train!
Union Pacific OCS Passenger Train Chase On Tehachapi!
ACE Overload! ~ Heritage Units & Lots Of SD70 Leaders On The Mojave
Chartered Private Car Train & Awesome Coast Starlight Consist!
Santa Fe 3751 Leaving Los Angeles ~ Vintage 4-8-4 Steam Locomotive!
CSX Gateway To Florida! ~ Big Trains At Callahan, Florida!
Chasing UP 1943! Ft. SCAX 852 & UP Manifests (7/15/25)
Two Foreign Leaders & CSXT 4568! Railfanning Mojave, CA!
UP 1111 & UP 6236 On The Same Train! ~ Mojave Sub Freights!
UP Manifest Train Detouring On The Antelope Valley Line! ~ 7/5/25
Cab View Of The Jacksonville Skyway! ~ A Dying Transit System?
Chasing Union Pacific’s LOF42! ~ Saugus Local On The AV Line!
Railfanning The Baldwin Diamonds! ~ CSX Callahan Subdivision
Railfanning Jacksonville, FL! Amtrak Auto Train, CSXT 1852, & More!
Union Pacific Trains In Socal! OCS, UP 1988, UP6236 & More!
Heavy Coal Trains In The Desert!! ~ Union Pacific’s Lone Pine Branch!
Afternoon Railfanning In Mojave, CA ~ Ft. Unit Coal & Ethanol Trains!
Metrolink Trains In The AV Episode 26! ~ 852 In The Canyon!
Heritage Unit Overload! ~ UP 1983, 1989, & 1995!
Two Union Pacific Heritage Units On The Same Train (UP 1983 & 1989)
Railfanning The Ventura County Line! ~ SD70M Leaders, Burbank & More!
Union Pacific PSB6 Yard Slug & SD40 Mother Unit Chase
83 Miles Of Desert! Chasing UP 6310 From Via Princessa To Monolith
Union Pacific Trains In SoCal! Palmdale & Los Angeles, CA
Metrolink Trains In The AV Episode 25! Both PTC Cabcars & SCAX 868
Three UP Manifest Trains & Three UP Z Trains In Palmdale, CA
Metrolink EMD F59PHR Compilation ~ All 2024 Catches! (Part 2 of 2)
Chasing A Southern Pacific Leader! UP 6378 On The Mojave Sub!
Metrolink EMD F59PHR Compilation! ~ All 2024 Catches (Part 1 of 2)