The vast majority of BNSF Railway trains in southern California have recent GE diesels (ES44DCs, ES44ACs, ES44C4s and ET44C4s), and lately EMD SD70ACes are becoming more common as well. So when t... (more)
BNSF Railway train H-WCLBAR1-26 originated in Union Pacific’s West Colton Yard, and is making its way to BNSF’s Barstow Yard. Consecutively numbered ET44C4s 3752 and 3751 (no, not that... (more)
AMTK 167 leads the Chicago bound train up track 3 in Cajon Pass as night overtakes day.
UP 7924 brings a manifest train through Silverwood as it heads down Cajon Pass on its way to West Colton.
BNSF 8250 leads the late running Southwest Chief down Cajon Pass. AMTK 42 was the lead locomotive before the train had power issues in route.
A westbound Q train has just descended Cajon Pass with a pair of NS Dash 9s for power as they pass the San Bernardino station. Metrolink 364 is in the process of making a station stop on the adjac... (more)
After crossing Cajon Pass, BNSF train D-BARLAC3-11 rolls downgrade through Ono and into San Bernardino. This light engine movement originated in Barstow and is heading to Los Angeles, where there... (more)
BNSF Railway train Z-LACALT7-11 has been steadily climbing a 2.2% grade since shortly after it departed San Bernardino twenty-five miles ago. Now, as this Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train passes... (more)
BNSF Railway train Z-LACALT7-11, with an interesting locomotive lash up, rounds Cajon Pass’ famous Sullivan’s Curve as it claws its way out of the Los Angeles Basin and up to the Mojave Desert... (more)
Displaying one of the more interesting locomotive lashups to show up in southern California in a while is BNSF Railway train Z-LACALT7-11, the power for which represents three railroads and four p... (more)
After patiently waiting in the siding an Ansel, with the rear of its train actually hanging out onto the main forcing the detouring Coast Starlight to wait, UP 7367 gets its heavy manifest back un... (more)
Low clouds hang in Cajon Pass on a December morning. BNSF no. 7112 and mates appear out of the fog pulling stacks eastbound up the hill through Blue Cut.
A pair of brand-new BNSF ES44C4s, 3259 and 3261, are teamed with Dash 9-44CW 4033 to bring Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-WSPSBD7-15 from Willow Springs IL to San Bernardino CA. This westbou... (more)
The sun continues to warm the hillsides of Cajon Pass as another day begins while the BNSF 6776 eases a westbound intermodal train downgrade toward the Swarthout Canyon Road grade crossing.
Making a rather odd appearance beneath the Colton flyover, UP 1111 leads an engineering special off the BNSF San Bernardino Subdivision and onto the Union Pacific Yuma Subdivision. The unusual rou... (more)
Still One Number Away... BNSF 3750, just one number away from wearing a more recognized number in the railfan community, does its part with a sister ET44C4 (3745) to bring a westbound manif... (more)
Working upgrade through the Mormon Rocks, BNSF 4228 brings up the rear of the eastbound Christmas Train as it climbs toward the summit of Cajon Pass. After cresting the 3,777 foot summit, the trai... (more)
"H1, 2, 3."
Climbing Cajon Pass on a beautiful spring morning is BNSF Railway train S-LBPALT2-14, with four locomotives up front (ES44AC 6134, brand new ES44C4 3264, ES44C4 8329 and Dash 9-44CW 5235), two Dis... (more)
BNSF 3260 east leads the ZSBDALT as it nears the Summit of Cajon Pass.
BNSF's San Bernardino to Alliance, TX Z9 works up Cajon Pass at Pine Lodge with a pair of new 3200 series ES44C4 credits leading.
Just south of Victorville, California, the Mojave River cuts through the hills. The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway took advantage of this natural river engineering to get their rails through ... (more)
"Powered By Our People"...On A Different Railroad. Still less than half way into its trip from Las Vegas, NV to San Luis Obispo, CA, UP 1111 and its business car train find themse... (more)
A westbound Mixed Manifest drifts down through Sullivans Curve at Canyon on Union Pacific's Palmdale Cutoff to Colton Ca.
An eastbound Santa Fe freight nears the the summit of Cajon Pass.
A westbound Santa Fe freight roars over the summit of Cajon Pass.
Santa Fe GE B40-8W 538 plus 4 units, leading a westbound double stack train at Cajon, California.
The Desert Wind, has crested Cajon Pass, and is making the steep descent toward Los Angeles.
On a beautiful clear Southern California morning, an eastbound UP grain empty was climbing Cajon Pass after a fresh snow fall.
Union Pacific SD70ACe no. 8926 leads a westbound manifest towards Sullivans Curve on main 2 after passing under Hwy 138. The rear of the train is passing Morman Rocks in the background. An eastbo... (more)
Snow covers the high peaks of the mountains that flank Cajon Pass in Southern California. A Union Pacific Auto Rack climbing towards the Summit on the Union Pacific Palmdale Cutoff dramatizes the... (more)
"Homecoming: Return of the King" It's big, it's back, and it's better than ever! Union Pacific's newest addition to its Steam Program, the massive 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" #4014... (more)
A westbound (UPRR "southbound") autorack train bound for West Colton makes it's way down Cajon Pass with UP SD70ACe-T4 3045 and SD70ACe 8414 at the front and AC44CWCTE 5903 at the rear. ... (more)
Passing Blue Cut, BNSF 9769 brings up the rear of the HBARSDG.
BNSF's westbound Barstow to San Diego manifest heads down Cajon Pass with SD70MACe #9769 on the rear.
UP 3096 leads an Oakland to Long Beach baretable down Cajon Pass on the Palmdale Cutoff. The train is just about to cross over Hwy 138 at North Canyon.
Santa Fe 2959, 3282 and 3338 are on their side next to the north track at the derailment site located just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rain storms caused track damage and ATSF 3338, ... (more)
On August 13, 1990, the Santa Fe Railway operated a special train on Cajon Pass for the filming of a promotional film for one of their large shipping container customers, A.P. Møller – Mærsk A... (more)
SP 4310 pulls out of Canyon Siding onto the SP main line to head west. Scanned from a color print.
BNSF Railway train originated in St. Louis, Missouri, on Christmas Eve, which may explain its truncated length as it descends Cajon Pass on December 27, 2019. This train is likely not heavy, eithe... (more)
Santa Fe (ATSF) GP50, numbered 3810-3854.
Passing thru Cajon Summit, NS 7242 west crosses over to main #2 for the decent down the pass.
A pair of NS units lead this westbound QNYCLAC down main 2 as the train passes the Pine Lodge area of Cajon Pass.
A colorful consist led Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train Z-WSPLAC7-30 when it was photographed at Martinez Siding, just east of Cajon Pass' Summit, making its way from Willow Springs I... (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)
A pair of coal units leads this eastbound BNSF stack train up Cajon Pass.
Brand new BNSF 3721 leads the eastbound Kaiser Hauler up main 1 as the train enters Sullivan's curve.
A Southern Pacific train enters the railroad’s West Colton Yard after traversing Cajon Pass on the Palmdale Cutoff. This eastbound train is led by a pair of Union Pacific SD40-2s (3213 and 3235... (more)
San Bernardino bound COFC with a Grinstein Green Big Mac in the power consist crest the Summit in Cajon Pass.
BNSF Railway train Z-SBDALT9-20L climbs Cajon Pass as it passes through Blue Cut. This UPS-LTL intermodal train, headed from San Bernardino to Alliance, Texas, is powered by BNSF ES44C4 6937, BNS... (more)
Late afternoon in a classic scene in Cajon Pass, it is impressive to hear the roar and effort of those engines as they face the numerous curves before reaching the Summit. A eastbound BNSF Z train... (more)
A BNSF intermodal climbs Cajon Pass on a sunny October morning.
A old and dirty Rio Grande SD-45 5336 leads a westbound Union Pacific coal train down Cajon Pass towards San Bernardino.
Metrolink Winter-Wonderland! I took a day trip the day after Christmas with a friend who was visiting from out of town, trying to get to Tehachapi for some snow shots. All roads, state routes, eve... (more)
That Herb Sullivan guy sure knew how to pick a spot.
UP 3203 and UP 3419 lead an eastbound Maintenance of Way train towards the summit on Cajon Pass on a cool, stormy afternoon.
Gently gliding down the steady 3% grade is a westbound stack train on track 3 which encompasses most of the original mainline thru Cajon Pass passing over the remnants of Route 66 and under Inters... (more)
UP SD70ACe-T4 #3065 leads an ILXAH into Sullivan's Curve on main 1 as it climbs Cajon Pass.
On a clear winters day in February 1985 an eclectic mix of SP power, a normal for the SP, climbs through Canyon as they make their way towards Bakersfield. The tracks below are Santa Fe's and tena... (more)
The West Colton to Ogden train heads into the cut just before Summit in Cajon Pass.
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)
UP snoot (snoopy) SD40-2 with a DD35B in tow works up the Cajon pass at the Mormon rock area
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.
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)
The 25-mile slog up Cajon Pass’ western slope is about done for BNSF train Z-SBDWSP9-27 as it crests the Summit and will shortly begin the gentler downhill run to Victorville. Nine General Elec... (more)
Sometimes, Cajon Pass is too busy! A case in point is this meet between two trains. While waiting for eastbound train Z-LACNYC9-27 (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal, Los Angeles CA to New York NY), w... (more)
Stretching out as far as the eye can see (because, after all, the eye cannot see around the hill in the distance) is BNSF Railway train Z-ALTSBD9-26. On the second day of its journey from Allianc... (more)
Union Pacific ES44AC 7436, AC4400CW 7229 and SD70ACe 8765 (with ES44AC 8031 on the rear) rounds the big curve just before Cajon Pass’ Summit as train I-LBG31-27 makes its way across BNSF’s Caj... (more)
BNSF 7021 East, rear DP on a loaded Herzog ballast train shoving uphill past the railfan famed 'Hill 58.2', on BNSF's Cajon Pass route after a "once in 10 year" snowfall the day before.
BNSF 8061 West winding its way downgrade along the original ATSF mainline (now Main 3) right of way below Silverwood, on BNSF's Cajon Sub after 4-6 inches of fresh power fell the day before.
In order to take advantage of a gentler grade, BNSF Intermodal train Z-ATGSBD7-23 crosses from Main 3 (with a 3% grade) to Main 2 at Summit, at an elevation of 3775-feet (1150.62 meters) is an int... (more)
BNSF Railway train originated in St. Louis, Missouri, on Christmas Eve, which may explain its truncated length as it descends Cajon Pass on December 27, 2019. This train is likely not heavy, eith... (more)
BNSF 5183 West seen snaking down a steeper main 3 stretch of mountain grade along BNSF's Cajon Sub below Silverwood, after a fresh multi-inch blanket of snowfall the previous day.
This loaded ethanol train departed Axtell, Nebraska, on December 20. On December 27, 2019, this unit train was getting close to its destination of Watson, in the Port of Los Angeles area. BNSF l... (more)
Grinding upgrade on its way east, BNSF ES44C4 4285, ET44C4 3905, ES44C4 8101, ES44C4 7117 and ES44C4 6608 provide the muscle for Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-LACWSP9-27. A colder-than-usua... (more)
Rolling west from Willow Springs (near Chicago IL) to Los Angeles, BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-WSPLAC9-25 passes through the sandstone formations of the Mormon Rocks area of Cajon Pas... (more)
BNSF Railway intermodal stack train S-ALTSCO1-25 rounds the curve into Cajon, in the heart of southern California’s Cajon Pass, on a snowy December 27, 2019. This train departed Alliance, Texas... (more)
