Tom Golden photo.
Viewed from across a cut on the south track om Cajon Pass, a westbound Santa Fe train with 26 piggyback flats descends the Pass on the north track at 12:08 pm.
My friends and I found Cajon to be a somewhat frustrating place. After getting the “easy” locations, we started to set up at the less-accessible spots. In this case, we were ready for trains ... (more)
Sunrise Semaphores. Former ATSF 2-6-2 1024 (Burnham, Williams & Co., 1901) worked the area for for the ATSF for over 50 years. After retirement, it was donated to the City of La Junta, Colo... (more)
A four-pack of new GE widecabs is seen bringing a hot intermodal train south through Joliet. Tom Golden photo.
An A-B-B set of GP60s heads north with a piggyback train. Tom Golden photo.
A Santa Fe caboose brings up the markers on an eastbound manifest at Cajon Junction, California. The colorful consist includes a company-service tank car.
At dusk, in the summer before Amtrak, the Santa Fe's Chicago-Los Angeles El Capitan makes its stop at Joliet, IL, behind a cowl trio of an FP45 and two F45s. By this time the all-coach El Capitan ... (more)
Santa Fe GP60 4026 plus three units, eastbound near Summit, Cajon California.
Santa Fe EMD GP60 (4000-4039) built 1988-1989
