Approaching the tunnel. This is an American classic from a slightly different angle.

At sunrise, a westbound UP pig train with back-to-back Centennials for power winds its way down No. 3 Track, which has a grade of 3.0 percent.

UP 3551 east enters tunnel 1 on Cajon Pass. The tunnel is now gone, and UP 3551 is now Iowa, Chicago & Eastern 6404.

Brand new ES44C4 6539 leads this eastbound BNSF stack train up Cajon Pass at Alray on Easter Sunday.

2 units lead this eastbound stack train through Alray as it climbs the grade up Cajon Pass.

Working east at Alray, UP 7724 leads the MWCNP as it climbs Cajon Pass. The trailers in the upper right hand corner of the photo is UP's ZBRLC decending the grade on the Palmdale Cutoff.

less than year old UP SD40-2 with pooled power leads a hotshot east up Cajon Pass out of one of the two Alray tunnels

A westbound stack train heads down Cajon as the sounds of dynamic breaks echo the air around Walker.

A Z1 from Kansas City to Los Angeles makes its way down Cajon passing what used to be the old tunnel before the triple track project.

A slightly faded 6-axle leads quite and assorment of power eastbound.

This eastbound mixed freight with a very mixed consist in just heeling into the curve leading to Tunnel 2. Shot from the embankment.

The standard-cab GP60s got lost in the excitement over the Warbonnets, but they were good-looking units.

This was a rarety. For some reason this ATSF string was on the rear of a UP train. The only thing I can figure out is that this may have been the UP coal train. In those days UP did not use a l... (more)

An EB train with an unrebuilt but repainted unit is approaching the tunnel, taking the "the long way".

Anticipation, anticipayaytion. I just couldn't resist. Lord, I apologize. This is an EB freight, that's all, don't ready anything into it.