Cresting the summit of southern California's Cajon Pass is Amtrak train #35, the Desert Wind, heading from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Los Angeles on December 29th, 1979. F40PHRs 290 and 289 ... (more)

Four years old, but still squeaky clean, Union Pacific SD40-2 3672 leads a westbound freight around the curve at Cajon Pass' Swarthout Canyon Road grade crossing as it approaches Blue Cut on its w... (more)

Union Pacific's LAX heads up Cajon Pass on its way east. The power for this hot UPS train is the typical "Fast Forty Sandwich" (two DDA40X "Centennials" back to back, with an 8000-class SD40-2H b... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-SBDALT9-06A (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; San Bernardino CA to Alliance TX) passes train M-SDGBAR1-05A (Regular Merchadise; San Diego CA to Barstow CA) at Lugo, on the eastern... (more)

As seen through a 500mm lens, a westbound freight makes its way through Lugo as it climbs the eastern slope of Cajon Pass. Meanwhile, automobiles come and go on nearby Summit Valley Road.

The Mojave Flyer charges up Cajon Pass with a pair of SD60Ms on the point.

Just after sun-up, recently delivered U30cs lead a UP eastbound down Cajon's eastern slope.

On a rare clear morning in the LA Basin, three SDP40Fs glide downgrade through Devore with train No. 3.

Four big C-C warbonnets hustle a hot intermodal train up Cajon's eastern slope.

Centennial No. 6905 leads a hot eastbound pig train at Martinez Spur.

A huge Lockheed aircraft parts car heads west on an SP freight climbing the Palmdale-Colton Cut-off. The car is likely headed for the Lockheed facility located between Palmdale and Lancaster, CA.

At sunrise, a westbound UP pig train with back-to-back Centennials for power winds its way down No. 3 Track, which has a grade of 3.0 percent.

Photographer Dave Stanley scurries back to the photographer's Plymouth Valiant after getting a shot of a Santa Fe York Canyon Coal Train at Martinez Spur on Cajon Pass.

UP Centennial No. 6927 leans into the curve at Martinez Spur as it leads an eastbound manifest up Cajon's eastern slope.

An all EMD lash-up pulls a West Colton, CA to North Platte, NE manifest charges up Cajon Pass.