The daily "Winkle Bar" (so called as it is the closest sounding out one can make of its symbol, "WCLBAR") dashes through the snow in a full-tagged DC GEVO. O'er the hills it goes, chugging all the... (more)

Way out in the snow covering Cajon Pass a Union Pacific Ogden train makes its way towards Summit.

An Atlanta-bound Z train is pretty normal on Cajon Summit. Two Dash 9s in the lead is a bit less normal. Running on the second day of snow on the ground is pretty dang rare.

A long Q-LACNSA6 rounds the curve at Summit with some NS power trailing.

BNSF and NS team up in the snow to bring a Q train towards Cajon Summit.

BNSF and NS team up in the snow to bring a Q train towards Cajon Summit.

A Long Beach to Logistics Park train crests Cajon Summit in a rare "two-day" snow. (While it snows in Cajon Pass, the snow usually only lasts a couple hours once the sun comes out - it was quite r... (more)

An Alliance bound Z train storms upgrade at Summit with a tattered Dash 9 leader.

BNSF 8327 West, first one down the steep route (main 3) along BNSF's Cajon Pass, just minutes after the track inspector cleared it for operation after the previous day's snowfall.

It is 4:10 pm, and we can see the shadows crawling across the mainlines as the Winter sun drops behind the 8,000 to 10,000-foot peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains. Unfortunately, this will be the... (more)

Silverwood, one mile from Cajon Pass' Summit, was not a location in railroad timetables until the mid-1980s, when the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific hoped to merge and connections between the Santa... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-LPCSCO2-23 begins its descent into the Los Angeles Basin as it crests Cajon Pass' Summit and will battle 15 miles of 2.2% downgrade. ES44C4 7155 and ET44C4 3799 will be utili... (more)

Rounding the curve between Summit and Silverwood, and passing the stopped local L-CAL0121-27, is BNSF Railway train B-VVCLAC1-27. This train, pulled by ES44C4 8168 and Dash 9-44CW 4396, is ferryi... (more)

The "Daygo," BNSF Railway's freight to San Diego, California, passes through Summit on Cajon Pass on a snowy December 27, 2019. Officially a High Priority Merchandise train, the H-BARSD... (more)

Union Pacific freight train M-NPWC2-22 passes through the iconic Mormon Rocks, dusted with snow, as it ticks off the last few miles of its journey from North Platte, Nebraska, to West Colton Yard,... (more)