It is 4:10 pm, and we can see the shadows crawling across the mainlines as the Winter sun drops behind the 8,000 to 10,000-foot peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains. Unfortunately, this will be the... (more)
Silverwood, one mile from Cajon Pass' Summit, was not a location in railroad timetables until the mid-1980s, when the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific hoped to merge and connections between the Santa... (more)
BNSF Railway train S-LPCSCO2-23 begins its descent into the Los Angeles Basin as it crests Cajon Pass' Summit and will battle 15 miles of 2.2% downgrade. ES44C4 7155 and ET44C4 3799 will be utili... (more)
Rounding the curve between Summit and Silverwood, and passing the stopped local L-CAL0121-27, is BNSF Railway train B-VVCLAC1-27. This train, pulled by ES44C4 8168 and Dash 9-44CW 4396, is ferryi... (more)
The "Daygo," BNSF Railway's freight to San Diego, California, passes through Summit on Cajon Pass on a snowy December 27, 2019. Officially a High Priority Merchandise train, the H-BARSD... (more)