As the sun sets across Cajon Pass, a BNSF container train glides down grade as it passes a loaded UP coal train at the Mormon Rocks.
Climbing the pass and about to enter a tunnel that is no longer there this eastbound has a bunch of racks. Notice there's several topless ones in those days.
ALRAY CA Sept 7 1983 — A TOFC-COFC train is led by ATSF SD40-2 5207 on its uphill journey in Cajon Pass. EMD delivered the unit (s/n 786153-8) in October 1978 painted in blue body with yellow wa... (more)
ALRAY CA Sept 7 1983 -- Four tunnel motors, with SD40T-2 8573 in the lead, are in command of an SP autorack train. My photo
Named For Names. Traveling through the Cajon Pass on the afternoon of April 4, 2022, BNSF Railway 5227 (C44-9W, GE) leads an intermodal train through the area in between the San Gabriel and... (more)
Amtrak Train 36, the eastbound Desert Wind, climbs Cajon Pass east of the Alray tunnel area.
On a crisp January morning, an ATSF Barstow bound freight bursts out of the old 1913 built Alray Tunnel on its eastward trek up Cajon Pass. The single track tunnel, one of two on the Cajon Subdivi... (more)
On a clear day at Cajon Pass a Santa Fe westbound intermodal with a trio of matched year old B40-8s(foreground), races a SP drag past the Mormon Rocks off the South Track.
The Desert Wind, has crested Cajon Pass, and is making the steep descent toward Los Angeles.
Amtrak Train 35, the Desert Wind, descends Cajon near Alray at 11:40 on May 5, 1984.
Before they part ways just east of Silverwood, a BNSF intermodal races a UP manifest traveling on the Palmdale Cutoff.
A Cotton Belt SD45T-2 shoves a westbound Southern Pacific manifest at Alray, California.
Tunnel motors and standard SD’s team up to bring 94 cars of eastbound Southern Pacific freight over the Palmdale Cutoff at Alray.
