Forced off its regular route through Cajon Pass due to a massive wildfire, the Union Pacific's Los Angeles to Denver Z train gains some rare mileage as it detours through Soledad Canyon on Metroli... (more)

With a coal-hauling diesel in the lead, Metrolink's last weekend train from Lancaster to Los Angeles passes through CP Quartz inside Soledad Canyon.

Having just crested Vincent Grade, a Metrolink to Lancaster begins the decent into Palmdale with an AC4400CW on its tail to lead on the trip back to LA.

A Lancaster train passes by an abandoned metal barn in the heart of Soledad Canyon. This is new Metrolink ROW. The original SP route was behind me here.

BNSF 5621 leads a eastbound Metrolink into the Action/Vincent Grade station with the Westbound ZLCLT in the siding.

Metrolink's rail train is trailed by a classy and borrowed Coast Rail Services caboose as it runs through Soledad Canyon.

Metrolink's rail train comes around an S curve to the west of Action with an once-in-a-lifetime consist of the ex MiRail F59, a Coast Rail SW10, and a Coast Rail GP9 (with crew quarters in the sho... (more)

Metrolink's rail train heads out of Acton with an once-in-a-lifetime consist of the ex MiRail F59, a Coast Rail SW10, and a Coast Rail GP9 (with crew quarters in the short nose).

The Vulcan Rock Train begins to move again at CP Quartz as it starts to drop from the summit of Vincent/Acton behind it.

The ZLCLT is on the closing stretch of it's trip through Soledad Canyon on the ex-SP Saugus Line behind the 5000th GEVO and two SD70Ms.

The DPU on the Oakland-bound ILBOA intermodal is being put to work as the long consist struggles out of Soledad Canyon.

UP 8024 leads the RVUVU down Soledad Canyon as it passes through Acton.

UP's Vulcan rock train works its way up the final mile of Vincent hill which crests just west of the city of Acton at CP Crest. The heavy rock train is en route to the Sun Valley, CA vulcan rock p... (more)

UP's ULBTN works up grade through Soledad Canyon on the ex Southern Pacific Saugus Line in the early morning.

Union Pacific's Long Beach to Trona empty unit Potash train makes its run up the Saugus Line heading back to the Northern Mojave Desert for another load.