Pi Day in the Wasatch

Photographed at Pi time on Pi Day - Shot on 3/14/15 at 9:26 (3.1415926) ... Well, close enough, anyway, as my camera said it was 9:27 and James Belmont's sa... (more)

Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station 1 hour 12 minutes behind schedule (because it arrived in San Luis Obispo 1 hour and 5 minutes late) is Amtrak train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight.... (more)

As storm clouds gather, a westbound Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railnet train, led by HLCX SD40 5004 (which the NKCR is leasing), rumbles across an old trestle on the railroad's St. Francis Line as t... (more)

Rolling at train speed, 60 mph (for passenger trains) is BNSF Railway Officer Special O-LACSBD8-06A. BNSF ET44C4 7939 can handle this 10-car train easily as it heads 62 miles from Los Angeles ... (more)

Amtrak GP38 723, getting some work done in the carrier's Wilmington Maintenance Facility, was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Louisville & Nashville GP38 4003 in June 1970, this... (more)

After three days of rain and snow, a small lake has appeared at the east end of Cajon, between Track 1 (not visible here) and Track 2. Descending Track 2 is BNSF Railway "High Priority Merch... (more)

My wife used to work with someone who came from the eastern US, and after the San Gabriel Mountains would get some snow, on a clear day he would say, "It looks like we live somewhere." And as we ... (more)

Snow is falling at Cajon (elevation 3,116-feet), but at Summit (seven miles away, but at 3,775-feet altitude) the sun is out. While snow this heavy at Cajon is not unheard of, it only occurs ever... (more)

A massive snowstorm in the mountains of southern California is preventing a view into the valleys of Cajon Pass, where it is snowing. But here, at the summit of the BNSF Railway’s crossing of t... (more)

Leaning into a curve is Union Pacific train ZLAAI-19, a UPS Expedited Intermodal train making its way from Los Angeles CA to Atlanta GA. Climbing up southern California’s San Timoteo Canyon as ... (more)

Union Pacific train ZLBDV-26, a UPS Expedited Intermodal train (with some autoracks up front) has climbed out from under the clouds dropping snow on Cajon Pass' lower areas, and is about to crest ... (more)

A few years ago, as GEVOs were being delivered every few months, a friend commented that soon railfans would be salivating at a solid set of Dash 9s the same way we would over a solid set of SD40-... (more)

The summit of Cajon Pass, a spot the railroad inexplicably calls "Summit", sits 3,775-feet above sea level. The day after a massive snowstorm hit the area, dropping snow at elevations a... (more)

A late Amtrak train 3 at Cajon. (Cajon Pass, California - February 26, 2023)

At 2618 feet, Cajon Pass' Blue Cut, is much lower than Cajon (near Sullivan's Curve) or Summit (obviously, since it sits at 3775-feet). It therefore rarely gets much snow. However, after three d... (more)