Drifting downgrade into San Bernardino is a light engine movement of eleven locomotives (and, not a surprise these days, all GE diesels) from Barstow to Los Angeles. ES44AC 6299 brings up the rea... (more)

On what I believe was my last time to photograph the Pass, a westbound merchandise descends the grade. The GEs were beginning to creep in more.

A Union Pacific Roseville train approaches the Lytle Creek Bridge in San Bernardino with a string of yellow TTX boxcars behind the yellow power. If not for the tagging on the boxes and the dirt on... (more)

EB merchandise at one of the more famous locations. I'd like to see it now, with three tracks instead of two.

Two rarities in one train. Santa Fe only had sixteen of this model and in those days it was extremely rare to encounter a pure GE consist befouling the pristine atmosphere of the LA basin in the ... (more)

Santa Fe train number 23, The Grand Canyon Limited, is arriving San Bernardino California in 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Back when ATSF was and was all blue and when we old farts think all was right with the world a freight is climbing the hill. Photo by Robert Robl.

As always, the public turns out en masse for the San Bernardino Railroad Days, when the star of the show is former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 3751, owned by the San Bernardino Railro... (more)

A trio of SD40-2s, plus an SD45, grind upgrade to get a Union Pacific freight out of San Bernardino and over Cajon Pass. One-month-old UP SD40-2 3730 leads this train as it passes through Verdemo... (more)

BNSF Railway's California Division Christmas Train operated a pair of 50-mile round-trips on the railway's Cajon Sub from San Bernardino, California, to the Summit of Cajon Pass. The second trip ... (more)

Competitors getting along together. UP's number has been modified on one side. The ATSF units are probably helpers.

The now-daylighted tunnel witnesses another EB UP behind yet another SD40-2.

I miss that tunnel. There must be a corollary to the theory of entropy which states that all the neat stuff goes away to be replaced by the mundane, ordinary and bland. The Seaboard Air Line app... (more)

I'm back for a visit and I get to see these things called double stacks. Boggles my mind that they've been around that long. Back in the two track days. I haven't gotten to railman in the three... (more)

A westbound freight is shaking the ground as it roars eastbound. Looks that that second unit was in the wrong place and the wrong time some time ago. It's April and the chill precludes Blue Cut'... (more)