A trio of SD40-2s, plus an SD45, grind upgrade to get a Union Pacific freight out of San Bernardino and over Cajon Pass. One-month-old UP SD40-2 3730 leads this train as it passes through Verdemo... (more)

BNSF Railway's California Division Christmas Train operated a pair of 50-mile round-trips on the railway's Cajon Sub from San Bernardino, California, to the Summit of Cajon Pass. The second trip ... (more)

Competitors getting along together. UP's number has been modified on one side. The ATSF units are probably helpers.

The now-daylighted tunnel witnesses another EB UP behind yet another SD40-2.

I miss that tunnel. There must be a corollary to the theory of entropy which states that all the neat stuff goes away to be replaced by the mundane, ordinary and bland. The Seaboard Air Line app... (more)

I'm back for a visit and I get to see these things called double stacks. Boggles my mind that they've been around that long. Back in the two track days. I haven't gotten to railman in the three... (more)

A westbound freight is shaking the ground as it roars eastbound. Looks that that second unit was in the wrong place and the wrong time some time ago. It's April and the chill precludes Blue Cut'... (more)

After my arrival I was thrilled to be living near famous Cajon Pass. This WB mixed freight is one of the first of many pictures or fine railfanning day, even with a ubiquitous -2.

Back when there seemed to be nothing but SD40-2s this consist is a little different but the real story is the first cut of cars. Livestock on the hoof. Probably one of the last such movements. ... (more)

Amtrak's Desert Wind heads for Vegas as it rolls past Cajon.

Constructed on part of the old Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Redlands Loop, originally built on the late 1800s, is Metrolink's newest service: Arrow (named as an homage to the Inland Empire's... (more)

A pair of General Electric demonstrators, GECX 2025 and 2037, sit in the small engine facility in BNSF Railway's San Bernardino A Yard. These test locomotives were either ES44AC, ES44A6, ES44C6 o... (more)

BNSF OCS descending the Cajon Pass

Santa Fe Railway's Ce-5 class of waycars was created in 1970 for a group was cabooses based out of Kansas City KS' Argentine Yard, operated on locals and transfers. Initially retaining their orig... (more)

Santa Fe 5126 waits for a signal to enter the yard in San Bernardino.