First train of the New Year! 2 NS units lead a Northbound empty rail train heading to Port of Stockton up the Palmdale Cutoff as the train works up Cajon Pass.

A MAERSK Long Beach to Chicago stack train was climbing Cajon Pass on a clear day in southern California

Santa Fe Los Angeles to Kansas City train 893 climbing eastbound on normal westbound South Main near old siding site of Gish on Cajon Pass between Summit and Cajon stations.

A few months before the Blue Cut Fire' a BNSF Z drops westbound down from Summit on main 3 while on Union Pacific's Palmdale Cutoff, a pair of helpers are pushing a mixed manifest eastbound.

A BNSF Z, with No. 7503 leading, starts the decent from Summit down Cajon Pass on Main 3, as a Union Pacific Stack holds Main 2 and the BNSF Holiday train holds Main 1.

BNSF 7153 brings up the east end of this years Christmas Train as it heads down main 3 in Cajon Pass.

BNSF 8184 leads the inbound Southern California Christmas Train down main 3 at Steins Hill as it heads for San Bernardino.

UP 8424 leads an empty eastbound coal train on BNSF rails as it enters Sullivan's Curve as it works up Cajon Pass.

A very nice and clean UP 2731 leads a West Colton to Roseville manifest up Cajon near Davis Ranch.

The BNSF Barstow to San Diego Manifest "M-BARSDG", nicknamed the DAYGO, gets the green to proceed out of Cajon Summit!

Export Coal

On November 15, 1980, a Union Pacific coal empties climbs southern California’s Cajon Pass as it heads eastward back to Utah for another load. Union Pacific SD40-2 371... (more)

It Sounded Great!

In a scheme repeated thousands of times in the 1970s and 1980s, a westbound Southern Pacific freight grinds upgrade on the Palmdale Cutoff, SP's shortcut between Bl... (more)

CAJON Pass CA Sept 7 1983 -- An SD40-2 rolls through a closed crossing in Cajon Pass.

A trio of "fast forties" were leading an eastbound empty grain train up Cajon Pass between Cajon and Alray on the North track

As an eastbound BNSF stack train goes up a westbound unit tank train comes down into 'old Cajon'. This location, once Cajon Station, is where the north and south tracks split with the original 3% ... (more)