| BNSF 5374 first of the DPU set pushing behind an eastbound mixed freight in Boron, CA (yes, _that_ famous twenty-mule Borax California) at the edges of the Mojave Desert (joshua trees everywhere) as she comes out of the dust storm and we head into it (these will be last clear through-the-window shots for the trip as our car got thoroughly sandblasted frosting the headlights, windows, and everything else over the next hour or two in repeated sand storms reducing visibility down to twenty to fifty-odd feet). |