The Winter of 1981 was a dry one, as evidenced by the lack of greenery in the Tehachapi Mountains as an eastbound Santa Fe freights winds through Cable, location of one of the many passing sidings... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe FP45 5992 (ex-5942, nee-102), teamed with FP45s 5991 and 5998, is on the point of a 14-car Analysts' Special climbing Cajon Pass as the train heads from San Diego to Bak... (more)

Grinding up the 3% grade on Cajon Pass' South Track, the original mainline and also the steeper of the two tracks, is an eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight with an impressive set... (more)

For the last ten miles, since Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP30 3250 (ex-ATSF 1250) and four GP35s departed San Bernardino, this train has been steadily climbing the ATSF First District's 2.2% grade... (more)

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train of empty autoracks, with ATSF U36C 8784 leading a mix of GE and EMD locomotives, rounds the well-known curve leading to Cajon Pass' Summit. (Cajon Pa... (more)

A high load on a depressed-center flat car is transported in a short Santa Fe train, led by GP303211 (ex-ATSF 1211). The two tank cars may be there as buffer cars. (La Mirada California – Augu... (more)

An Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe eastbound piggyback train passes by the old Santa Fe (now Amtrak) passenger station in Fullerton. ATSF SD45 5506 (ex-ATSF 1806, built in June 1966), featuring a shat... (more)

On Day 3 of Santa Fe 3751’s first excursion following its restoration (after decades on static display in a park in San Bernardino), the excursion train slows to a stop in as it climbs over the ... (more)

Passing the Amtrak station in Fullerton as it heads east out of Los Angeles' Hobart Yard is an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight, with SD45-2s 5646 and 5640, along with an FP45, for power... (more)

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight slows for a crew change as it nears the western end of the railway’s First District, which extends from San Bernardino to Barstow. This t... (more)

Climbing upgrade across the Tehachapi Mountains is a Santa Fe eastbound, with ATSF GP60 4027, ATSF FP45 93, Union Pacific SD40-2 3284 and UP SD40-2 3703 for power. (Bealville, California – Ma... (more)

It takes a lot of power to lift heavy trains over the Tehachapi Mountains, as evidenced by the nine locomotives needed to get this Santa Fe eastbound, led by F45 5903. Nine diesels from EMD’s f... (more)

A pair of SD40s (ATSF 5005 and 5013) stop to pick up some cars as the train heads east on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway’s Third District. Just behind the power is another locomotive be... (more)

A lot has changed here since 1981: The Mt. Vernon Avenue overpass is gone (and will be replaced with a less-rickety structure), the tower at A Yard is gone, A yard is now an intermodal fac... (more)

Santa Fe 9537, painted in the "Kodachrome" scheme for the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railway (a merger that was ultimately denied), leads an eastbound freight at May, on Santa Fe... (more)