BNSF 7940 climbing up Cajon Pass

A Santa Fe piggyback train, most likely the 891 (Los Angeles CA to Chicago IL) has just made a crew change in San Bernardino and it once again moving east. A quartet of ATSF Dash 8-40BWs – the ... (more)

ISCLB heads through San Bernardino in the late afternoon.

UP 2426 works with a company of SD40-2s and another C30-7 as they grind up Cajon Pass at Devore with an eastbound mixed manifest.

EMD 1, EMD 2 and EMD 4 bring a special Santa Fe test train to a stop in San Bernardino. Soon the train will be heading up Cajon Pass, with the Santa Fe test car gathering data on the new EMD SD-... (more)

ATSF GP30 leading some more GPs in front of the the freight through Cajon summit. in this years, GP30s or GP35s could sometimes be seen in front of heavy freight, often just leading some much b... (more)

Rolling through Ono, at milepost 75 – 6½ miles railroad-east of San Bernardino – after having conquered Cajon Pass. This westbound freight is powered by GP35 3398, the former ATSF 1398, team... (more)

Spotted in San Bernardino’s B Yard was waycar (what the Santa Fe called cabooses) 999630. This car was built in August 1948 (original four-digit number unknown), and rebuilt into a CE-3 class c... (more)

Santa Fe 9537, painted in the "Kodachrome" scheme for the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railway (a merger that was ultimately denied), leads an eastbound freight at May, on Santa Fe... (more)

With a light rain falling, freshly painted Santa Fe 1569 sits along with other SPSF merger paint scheme locomotives and slug units in primer paint outside of the San Bernardino engine shops.

Santa Fe 5126 leads Santa Fe 8728 and a westbound intermodal train into the yard in San Bernardino.

A westbound Santa Fe freight descends Cajon Pass as the sun is about to drop behind the San Gabriel Mountains, bringing a day of railfanning to an end. ATSF C30-7 8160 leads a five-engine consist... (more)

As Union Pacific train UP F-ILBDV01-04I, with UP ES44AC 7760 as the rear Distributed Power Unit (DPU), grinds up Cajon Pass, BNSF Railway train Q-NWHLAC6-30 pops out from behind it on another main... (more)

UP Freight climbs the 2.2% grade toward Victorville and Barstow

ATSF freight with three different 45 engines and an U boat running down the Cajon pass on the original 3.3% grade.