A couple Union Pacific SD60M's sandwich a CNW SD60 as they pull a K-Line stack train up Cajon Pass.

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)

A quartet of BNSF Railway General Electric diesels bring an intermodal train down Cajon Pass. Nothing unusual about that. But snow had fallen in the Pass’ higher elevations, and that’s alway... (more)

BNSF Railway ES44C4 7139 (along with ES44C4 6598 and ES44DC 7249) leads Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-WSPSBD7-04L through the hamlet of Blue Cut at sunset as it moves down Cajon Pass on its ... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific piggyback train descends Cajon Pass headed for Los Angeles behind SD40 3111, DD35B 93B, DD35B 85B and a GP30B. (Cajon Pass, California – November 25, 1973)

As Union Pacific train UP MWCNP-16 (a West Colton CA to North Platte NE manifest) climbs Cajon Pass on BNSF Cajon Sub's Main 1, BNSF High Priority Freight H-BARSDG3-16A, running a mere 15½ hours ... (more)

BNSF Railway Intermodal Stack train S-LBELPK1-15L, heading from Long Beach CA to Logistics Park in Kansas City KS, is a 168-car, 14,551-foot, 15,052-ton train. The train has BNSF 7550, 5417, 7163... (more)

An eastbound train headed by BNSF 5146 and a track inspector hold on BNSF mains 1 and 2 while a Union Pacific auto train crosses over from BNSF main 2 to the Palm Dale cutoff.

Winding through the S-curve just uphill from Cajon Pass' Mormon Rocks is BNSF Railway train Z-WSPLAC2-31U (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; Willow Springs IL to Los Angeles CA). With only 46 cars (al... (more)

Union Pacific manifest train MWCNP-02, operating on the BNSF between Keenbrook and Daggett (and so, technically, BNSF train F-MWCNP01-02M while utilizing trackage rights) rounds the well-known cur... (more)

Heading downgrade through Blue Cut is BNSF train S-LHGLPC1-30A, hauling intermodal containers from Chicago IL to Long Beach CA-PCT. BNSF ES44DC 7779 is leading this train on a bright October afte... (more)

Cresting the grade at Summit, BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5072 and ES44DC 7275 begin their decent downhill toward Hesperia and points east, although Distributed Power Units ES44C4 8184 and Dash 9-44CW 4016 a... (more)

Red and Silver leads eastbound train HWCLBAR out of Cajon as it enters Sullivan's curve.

A westbound freight threads its way through the highest and more interesting trackage of the old alignment. Photo by Robert Robl.

This baretable train (or, in other words, a train of empty intermodal cars) originated in Phoenix, Arizona, and it bound for Los Angeles CA. BNSF ES44C4 6643, Dash 9-44CW 5260 and ES44DC 7212 are... (more)