The shot George references also appears in color, framed more tightly on the pair of near signals, on page 35 of the August 1977 issue of Trains. Part of Steinheimer's "Mojave Crossing" photo essay.

The caption reads, "Ninety miles east [of Barstow] on the Needles District, we stand on Bolo Hill and watch the almost imperceptible progress of an eastbound freight thundering down from Bagdad to Amboy. The continuously lit block signals, spaced 2 miles apart, form a kind of fence across the basin, while the headlight of the eastbound shows dimly on the rails for several miles."

Back when such picture epics in "THE magazine of railroading" prompted many a reader to actually buy it off the newsstand and bring it home, more than a few of us being deeply inspired to go out and explore similar places on our own.