A set of EMD blue bonnets, head eastbound through Kingman Canyon.

Information taken from a plaque on the tender. AT&SF 3424 was purchased September 1921 from Baldwin Locomotive Works at Eddystone PA. at a cost of $61,927.08. Used in passenger service on Chicago ... (more)

One-month-old Santa Fe Railway SD40-2 5143 leads a westbound freight through Blue Cut as it parallels Cajon Creek. Teamed with 5143 are F45 5904, C30-7 8025 and SD45 5599. (Cajon Pass, Californi... (more)

An Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway westbound freight rounds a curve on a trestle over Brea Creek as it heads to Los Angeles’ Hobart Yard behind a quintet of EMD Geeps: GP35s 3369 and 3415, G... (more)

San Diego PD motorcycle officers are seen investigating a fatal collision involving a four door sedan and AT&SF motive power on November 4th 1957. Photographer unknown, from my collection.

Santa Fe F7A #22 with four other passenger Fs, passes Cajon Pass (Summit), California with No.7 the Fast Mail Express, the green flags are displayed meaning its the second section of No.7 on Ju... (more)

Oh, the west and its magnificent scenery. A geologist's dream. This Kodachrome is grinding uphill on an eastbound. Alleged folks used to sunbathe in the nude down by the creek here but I never w... (more)

Look at the Kodachrome. ATSF seemed really enthusiastic about the repaint as if it would make the ill-fated merger go through somehow. One of the few cases where disaster was avoided.

Christmas Eve in the desert.

Photo by Calvin Christman. From my collection.

Grinding up the pass eastbound this train is taking the long way as was usual, crossing the creek, which seems to be flowing pretty well. This and the lush green of the bushes indicate recent rai... (more)

In the old paint, getting rare in those days, a cowl unit is leading an EB freight. Being a railfan and getting paid to live in California, within a stone's throw of Cajon Pass and Colton Tower, ... (more)

ATSF answered the need for hump power at their new yard in Barstow by creating the unique CRSD-20 combo, contrived by applying an EMD engine to a retired Alco RSD-15 Alligator. Geared very low, t... (more)

Another piggyback train rolls westbound at about the point where the old Cajon yard started. He's descending the heavier grade of "the short way" from the summit.

The rich afternoon light paints just another westbound freight in a yard with a storied past. "Red sky at night, sailors delight." But then again it's December and it's Illinois.