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Today's Ivanpah Road, an important north-south corridor in the Mojave National Preserve, is visible behind me

7730-ivanpah-railway.jpg A lot of fill was used to build up the Ivanpah railway bed across low-lying drainage areas like this oneThumbnailsHere's another slot blasted through the hill for the old Ivanpah railwayA lot of fill was used to build up the Ivanpah railway bed across low-lying drainage areas like this oneThumbnailsHere's another slot blasted through the hill for the old Ivanpah railwayA lot of fill was used to build up the Ivanpah railway bed across low-lying drainage areas like this oneThumbnailsHere's another slot blasted through the hill for the old Ivanpah railwayA lot of fill was used to build up the Ivanpah railway bed across low-lying drainage areas like this oneThumbnailsHere's another slot blasted through the hill for the old Ivanpah railwayA lot of fill was used to build up the Ivanpah railway bed across low-lying drainage areas like this oneThumbnailsHere's another slot blasted through the hill for the old Ivanpah railwayA lot of fill was used to build up the Ivanpah railway bed across low-lying drainage areas like this oneThumbnailsHere's another slot blasted through the hill for the old Ivanpah railway

I've often looked up at this old railway bed while riding up Ivanpah Road, but never got around to hiking it until today. I did hike a piece of it north of Bathtub Spring in my May 2011 trip out here.