A westbound unit tank train carefully drifts down the western slope of Cajon Pass near Blue Cut with recently delivered ES44C4 4264 on the point.

The Desert Wind

Amtrak train #36, led by SDP40F 526 and F40PH 221, passes through Mormon Rocks in southern California's Cajon Pass on March 27th, 1981. This is the eastbound <... (more)

Little Train at Summit

Southern California's Cajon Pass sees about 100 trains per day, from both BNSF Railway and Union Pacific (plus two Amtrak trains per day as well), and they ten... (more)

A Long Stack Train

BNSF Railway train S-LPKSCO2-27K passes through Cajon, in the heart of Cajon Pass, on May 30th, 2016. This train is 10,242 feet long and is carrying containers fr... (more)

A Motley Mix

A short Amtrak train, operated for Amtrak President Joseph Boardman, climbs southern California's Cajon Pass on May 30th, 2016. This train, comprised of P42DC 156 (wear... (more)

Herb Sullivan's Curve

A quartet of Union Pacific locomotives (SD60 6036, UP SD40-2 3929 and a pair of SD40T-2s still in Southern Pacific paint) navigate around Sullivan's Curve in so... (more)

BNSF 3765 leads a westbound Willow Springs to San Bernardino into Sullivan's Curve.

Westbound on the Palmdale cutoff, a Union Pacific Z, Containers, TOFC, drift downhill around Sullivans Curve.

Lite helper set of power descending Cajon Pass steep South main track near old station site of Gish

Eastbound BNSF Z, Stacks and TOFC take main 3, in the foreground, to get around a much slower eastbound mixed manifest crawling up main 2. Main 1 is open for a westbound.