A decent looking NLR repaint brings up the rear of the eastbound MWCNP just east of Cajon as the train passes through Sullivan's Curve.

Coal trains have dwindled in number on Cajon Pass over the years so it's always cool to catch one. CWELB9 08, a West Elk Mine (CO) to Port of Long Beach loaded coal train is seen heading downgrade... (more)

H-BARWCL1-13F heads downhill with a quartet of GEVOs and a UP SD70M bound for West Colton.

UP 7222 leads a northbound manifest between Silverwood and Hiland.

A Dash 9 heads a San Bernardino to Atlanta Z train up Cajon Pass early on their trip east, and probably one of the least likely places they'd encounter snow on the cross-country trip.

An outbound Q train with traffic for NS at Chicago slowly climbs upgrade at Cajon on a cold, snowy morning.

An eastbound stack train heads up Cajon Pass with snow providing a rare backdrop.

A Union Pacific freight, with DDA40X 6945, SD40-2 3235 and SD40s 3002 and 3004 for power, crests Cajon Pass as it heads east. (Summit, Cajon Pass, California – March 5, 1976)

BNSF train BEMPLAC lead by SD70MACe #9736, eases down main 3 as it heads for Los Angeles.

Three of BNSF Railway’s 25th Anniversary ES44AC locomotives headed east over Cajon Pass this day: BNSF 6111 was the second unit in train Z-SBDWSP8-23, BNSF 6017 led train O-SBDTOP (consisting o... (more)

Weather reports were stating that southern California’s San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains we to expect snow down to the 2,000-foot level. So, as often happens when there is snow that low... (more)

Rolling through the Mormon Rocks, BNSF Railway S-LPCSCO2-22 (Intermodal Stacks; Logistics Park Chicago IL to Long Beach CA), behind ES44C4 6933, ES44DC 7876 and ES44C4 8263 (and with ES44AC 6227 o... (more)

BNSF Railway train O-SBDTOP1-23, powered by Anniversary ES44AC 6017 (1/10th of the fleet of BNSF Anniversary engines), is about to crest the Summit of Cajon Pass as it heads back to Topeka after s... (more)

The bulk of BNSF Railway’s business car fleet arrived in southern California on January 27, when train O-TOPBAR1-27 arrived in Barstow CA from Topeka KS. These cars were used for a Berkshire Ha... (more)

It was supposed to snow quite a bit on Cajon Pass, but arriving early in the morning proved the old axiom about the unreliability of predicting the weather. The science of meteorology is better t... (more)