Photo by Tony Vanier. From my collection.

Climbing the grade out of San Bernardino as it heads for nearby Cajon Pass is BNSF High Priority Freight train H-WCLBAR1-19F – known as the "WickleBar" by crews. This day's WCLBAR is ... (more)

Thanks to a thus-far fairly wet winter, the hills of southern California are nice and green (and, sadly, much more burnable later in the year). It has even been wet enough that bright orange Cali... (more)

BNSF railway train Z-SBDALT4-19 is 25 miles into its trip from San Bernardino CA to Alliance TX as it rounds the iconic curve into Cajon Pass' Summit. This Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train has a... (more)

Heading west into the setting sun, BNSF Railway train Z-LPKLAC6-17 passes Casa Blanca on the railway's San Bernardino Sub. This Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train is powered by BNSF ES44AC 5925, B... (more)

A pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD60Ms lays over in the Soo Line’s locomotive facility at Portage, Wisconsin, in a view from the cab of Amtrak EMD F40PH No. 357 leading the eastbound Empire Bu... (more)

Four GEs battle the grade up Cajon Pass with the Z LACMEM as they pass through Mormon Rocks.

The DP motors of a loaded grain train help control 16,000 tons of weight as they descend through the "The Narrows" between Caliente and Ilmon.

Slowly battling the mountain grade of Tehachapi Pass, a monster Fresno, CA to Barstow, CA manifest snakes through the landscape at Rowen.

A heavy Modesto, CA to Barstow, CA manifest comes to a stop at the end of the double track section of Caliente to wait for a northbound train coming down from Bealville. Off to the engineer's side... (more)

A pair of locomotives head west out of Needles as they approach Java Flats on the eastern end of the Needles Sub. This train is the S CDZSCO1; stack train from Cadiz, CA to Thenard (Southern Calif... (more)

A BNSF manifest is seen running through the farmlands of the central valley, past an abandoned house near Escalon.

A eastbound intermodal train makes its way through Blue Cut in Cajon Pass

Amid a near-constant stream of S-, Q- and Z-symbolled intermodal trains, it was a welcome relief to find a unit train of loaded ethanol tank cars snaking through a colorful Santa Ana Canyon. BNSF... (more)

SAN BERNARDINO CA Sept 6 1983 — Santa Fe GP35 3447 awaits its next assignment. My photo.