A numberless critter shuffles around on a very momentous day for me.

What's the 411? Cemex/SWPC (SouthWest Portland Cement) SDP35 411 (ex-Seaboard Coast Line 1962, exx-SCL 612, née-Seaboard Air Line 1111, EMD, 9/1964) sits at the Victorville, California fac... (more)

Former Southwest Portland Cement H20-44 409 sits on display at IRM for diesel days.

Southwest Portland Cement Company EMD SDP35 No. 411 is running long hood first with a train from Victorville, California, operating back to the quarry as it approaches Stoddard Wells Road on March... (more)

A Rare FM H20-44 # 408 rests Deep inside the tight confines of the Southwest Portland cement Plant In Victorville in the summer of 1975. Photo Taken with permission

Southwest Portland Cement 412 idles under a pleasant winter sky in Victorville, California.

SWPC 411 "pours it on" as it heads from the mine back to the cement plant at Victorville with loads of rock.

SWPC 415 leads it's small 12 car train along Quarry Road in the early morning.

SWPC 415 leads the morning train towards the loading facility at Bell Mountain.

A former Union Pacific SD50, now owned and lettered for CEMEX, powers a train from the Bell Mountain mine down the old Mojave Northern rail line to the old Southwest Portland cement plant near Vic... (more)

Southwest Portland Cement's operation in Victorville, California, includes a rail operation between the processing plant and Bell Mountain Quarry. The railroad, built as the Mojave Northern, feat... (more)

Southwest Portland Cement H20-44 408 (ex-SWPC 66, ex-Union Pacific 1366, nee-FM demonstrator 2000), is seen at the company's Victorville facility on October 16, 1981. (Timothy Dickinson photo, Cr... (more)

The Mojave Northern Railroad was constructed in 1914 to connect Victorville, California, with the large deposit of Portland cement clinker (calcium silicates) east of town. Eventually, the Mojave... (more)

Southwestern Portland cement 415 leads a morning train towards the plant at Bell Mountain.

Early morning in the Mojave Desert along the Mojave Northern line running from Victorville to the facility at Bell Mountain finds SWPC 415 working hard up the steep grade.