Amtrak's Special heading to Modesto with all the brass aboard enjoys a pleasant journey up Cajon Pass on this Memorial Day 2016.

UP 7145 leads the 13,000+ Ton, 3x2, Coal train down the Palmdale Cutoff... Coal is rather rare these days and this is the only scheduled coal load over the Pass. This train is destined for CalPort... (more)

A Southern Pacific mixed-freight train works its way east through Blue Cut, California.

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Nothing brings out a multitude of railfans like a steam engine! As a Union Pacific passenger special, pulled by Challenger 3985 and the UP's trio of E9s, climbs... (more)

Eastbound Santa Fe freight train climbing Cajon Pass at Blue Cut

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train ascends Cajon at Blue Cut in the early morning of a late spring day. For some unknown reason, two CF7’s have been added to the motive power consist of a pr... (more)

A brand new ET44C4 engine brings up the rear of the BNSF Railway's Southern California Christmas train as it approaches Swarthout Canyon in Cajon Pass on a cold December morning.

The BNSF Railway's Southern California Christmas train charges east up Cajon Pass on a cold December morning near Blue Cut, this year featuring new ET44C4 engines on both ends of the consist.

BNSF ET44C4 3911 leads a Los Angeles to Atlanta Q train at Blue Cut in the early morning.

A red and silver Dash 8 leads an eastbound Santa Fe pig train through the sweeping curve just east of Blue Cut. We're standing close to the San Andreas Fault.

Eastbound Santa Fe freight climbing Cajon Pass at Blue Cut

GECX 2028 leads the ZLACWSP at Blue Cut as the train does every bit of track speed as it climbs Cajon Pass.

Passing through Blue Cut, in the lower reaches of Cajon Pass, is Burlington Northern Santa Fe train S-LBACHI1-03 (Intermodal Stacks; Long Beach [Pier A] CA to Chicago IL). A trio of Dash 9-44CWs ... (more)

Brand new BNSF 7944 is the rear DPU unit on this Westbound harbor bound stack train as it heads down Cajon Pass at Blue Cut.

An eastbound pig train with a typical colorful consist grinds through a famous location. Old-time California hands my remember that green stuff. It's called vegetation.