With a "snoot" in the lead this westbound is heading downgrade, with dynamic brakes whining. Speaking of d/b, that GP-9U second unit appears to still have them. It's the only one I ever saw wit... (more)

After ten years of work this unit has patches over the location of the class lights, some fading and a ding hear and there but she's still hauling the freight by the Mormon Rocks.

Coming down "the short way" a mixed freight is being handled by one of the somewhat less than successful GP-50s. There has been from rain.

Being a hot westbound the train took the shorter and steeper south track coming down the pass.

Being a hot westbound the train took the shorter and steeper south track coming down the pass.

Coming down "the short way" a mixed freight is westbound crossing the wash after having just passed under I-15.

A westbound Z Train heads down the grade of Cajon Pass on a nice windy Sunday evening.

Four classics chugging uphill in the early Cajon morning ...

Mopac heritage unit 1982 leads a Westbound through old Cajon station.

Two heavy stackers meet along the triple tracking of Cajon. Sadly, a FedEx truck has evaded the steel rails to waste fuel and space on the congested Interstate 15.

Not much life in the late summer months along the Cajon. What normally would be flowers in the Pacific Northwest are simply dead and dry shafts dotting the desert. With a fire a couple miles west ... (more)

A "Kodachrome" caboose brings up the end of a westbound under what appears to be the baleful gaze of a giant tan blob monster, in reality a sandstone rock weathered by countless generations of win... (more)

Coming down the north track, "the short way" this westbound train is approaching Sullivan's Curve.

I lived in the area for four years and never, ever found a GE 4-axle on the front of a train. I come back on short business trip and guess what!

I lived in the area for four years and never, ever found a GE 4-axle on the front of a train. I come back on short business trip and guess what!