BNSF Railway train M-BARKAI1-13A, a Barstow to Kaiser (Ontario) manifest; rounds the big curve between Summit and Silverwood in Cajon Pass. This train is led by the usual 7700-series ES44DCs (773... (more)

Union Pacific train MOGWC 10, a manifest heading from Ogden UT to West Colton CA, has just passed through Cajon Pass' Summit and it nearing Silverwood, where this train could transition from BNSF'... (more)

Amtrak long-distance trains have become hard-luck stories of late. The westbound Southwest Chief was late again, having lost one P42DC in Kansas City MO on July 11, 2019. The train's powe... (more)

After sunset with a couple of GPs working up the 3 % grade of the Cajon pass at Mormon rocks

The engineer on BNSF Railway train Z-WSPSBD9-15, a Willow Springs IL to San Bernardino CA Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train, gives a friendly wave to the idiot sticking his head of the vestibule t... (more)

Before they part ways just east of Silverwood, a BNSF intermodal races a UP manifest traveling on the Palmdale Cutoff.

After getting off work, I saw that an SD70ACe was leading a westbound Q into Barstow. I quickly ran to the hotel to get my camera and raced out towards Helendale to catch it. At the time, EMD moto... (more)

An eastbound ATSF pig train, pulled by a quartet of GE 4 axles, works uphill to Summit, CA in Cajon Pass.

After getting a clear signal BNSF 4802 leads an intermodal train through Cajon Pass.

UP 6381 hauls a loaded coal train through Cajon Pass on a sunny February afternoon.

In what appears to be a power move, F45 No. 5936 leads an eastbound manifest through the sweeping curve at Martinez on the eastern slope of Cajon Pass.

A BNSF manifest passes Cajon Summit

Seven 4-axle EMDs haul what look to be foreign autos up the steep grade at Blue Cut.

Four UP SD45s roll an empty Kaiser Steel coal train eastward at Martinez on Cajon Pass. The train of high-sided coal hoppers is headed back to the loadout in Utah for another load. The tall and ab... (more)

On a beautiful clear morning in the spring of 1974, a pair of Centennials hustles an eastbound UP pig train off the eastern slope of Cajon Pass.