Q-NYCLAC6 drifts downgrade passing the Mormon Rocks with a fairly rare for SoCal AC4400CW leading three more GEs and a train of NS interchange traffic bound for Hobart.

Union Pacific's Big Boy leads the westbound excursion down the Palmdale cutoff through Mormon Rocks.

SP 9177 leads Milwaukee Road 156, MILW 174 and MILW 168 up Cajon Pass. Seeing three Milwaukee Road engines on a single train was rather rare in Southern California.

The power for this westbound coal train had UP 3544, UP 3469, NW 6103, UP 2903, and dead in tow UP 6909 DD40X.

The brakeman on the Union Pacific 3544 gets a friendly wave from the engineer on Santa Fe 5533 at Cajon Summit.

UP 3633 is about to duck under Highway 138 as it leads an eastbound empty coal train up Cajon Pass.

UP 3091 is stopped on the south main as it waits for the westbound Amtrak Desert Wind to run around it.

SP 4449 has come to a stop with an overheated bearing after "racing" Union Pacific 4449 up Cajon Pass. After the situation was resolved, Extra 51 headed west towards Palmdale.

SP 4449 is heading up Cajon Pass towards Blue Cut as it "races" Union Pacific 8444. In some places on the pass one train would be ahead of the other, but in many places, the SP 4449 and UP 8444 w... (more)

UP 71 waits at Cajon Summit as the eastbound Amtrak Pacific Railroad Society Mountain Outin Special passes. Trains were backed up in both directions in order to let us pass through Summit. It ma... (more)

A BNSF ethanol train descends Cajon Pass just up from Sullivan's Curve.

A southbound Union Pacific freight descends Cajon Pass at Canyon Siding.

"Z" trains are the highest priority freight trains on the BNSF Railway. At Cajon, California, on July 27, 2019, BNSF Z-WSPSBD9-25, a hot Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train operating from... (more)

Heading from Alliance TX to Thenard CA, BNSF Intermodal Stacks train S-ALTSCO1-24 is about halfway down Cajon Pass, California as it passes through the Cajon station. The three General Electric d... (more)

Cajon, an old station on the Santa Fe, sits in the heart of southern California's Cajon Pass. BNSF Railway train Q-ALTSBD6-24, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal train heading from Alliance TX to Sa... (more)