A southbound UP coal train crosses over Lytle Creek in San Bernardino enroute to West Colton. In the background you can see the DPU's under the bridge.

A southbound UP manifest train, with a DIC Metrolink engine in the consist passes above a westbound BNSF intermodal on the tracks below.

UP 1989 heads north on the Palmdale Cut-Off.

A northbound UP manifest enters Mormon Rocks as two hikers stop to watch the train pass.

A southbound BNSF manifest broke a drawbar off a boxcar as it was crossing through Bealville. Luckily for the crew this train had midtrain helpers which were attached to the boxcar with the broken... (more)

A southbound UP Intermodal climbs the steep grade just before tunnel #2 in the Tehachapi Pass.

A northbound UP ballast train makes it's way down from Bealville to tunnel #2.

A southbound z-train rushes past me and the cement plant at Monolith doing a fine 58mph.

A northbound makes it's way above Cajon Canyon.

A southbound BNSF manifest exits tunnel #5 as another southbound holds in the siding at Bealville. Just out of the picture is a UP ballast train awaiting it's turn also. Probably the busiest momen... (more)

As the rear of an eastbound BNSF stack train climbs Silverwood a northbound UP on the Mojave Sub passes behind it.

A southbound UP manifest train heads down the Palmdale Cut-off and a eastbound BNSF enters the Blue Cut area of Cajon Pass.

Here's something I have never seen on Cajon Pass, mid-train helpers. In the last two weeks I've now seen this three times and all on the Palmdale Cut-off. Not sure of the reasoning behind the chan... (more)

First light graces the front of this southbound train on the Palmdale Cut-off in the Cajon Pass. What was most intersting about this train though was it was the first time I'd seen mid-train helpe... (more)

A southbound UP travels through Cajon Canyon as a eastbound BNSF travels below it.