A mid-morning BNSF train heading up the pass.

A BNSF train heading down the "garden track."

A BNSF train heading down the pass.

A Union Pacific train coming up the hill with a patched SP unit, while a BNSF train heads downhill.

Showing a touch of class BNSF sends this Westbound manifest over the hill with warbonet Dash 9 744 on the point. BNSF 744 west is passing MP 375.7 near Warren on UP's Mojave Sub.

My first SP/SWW train.For this easterner this was my first visit to southern California having arrived the day before.Staying in Palm Springs,I know who visits the desert in July? Well I did.Anyw... (more)

BNSF 4793 leads a unit coal train up the eastern slope of the Tehachapi mountains at MP 375.7, near Warren. These drash 9s & UP AC44 are pulling for all they are worth as they battle up the hill.

As the sun begins to set we get one more run by near Dunes, CA so named for the many sand dunes that are all around.

BNSF 7669 leads an EB Z train up Cajon pass.

Heritage SD70ACe’s 1988 (MKT) and 1996 (SP), and SD70M 4253 lead the Global 1 (Chicago) to Los Angeles domestic stack train downhill on Main 3

Late Saturday night (2/20/2010) BNSF's MBARSTO1 20A put 9 cars on the ground, some of which caught fire while inside Tunnel 9. The fire continued to burn well into Sunday, while crews waited for i... (more)

BNSF 7422 pushes hard on the end of a eastbound stack train moving up BNSF's north track.

UP 1983, 1996, & 1995 lead the KG1LA-09 into Swarthout Cyn, Blue Cut area on BNSF's Cajon Sub.

BNSF 4748 west swings it's train around the Klondike "S" as BNSF 5354 (DPU) is working hard pushing the 10,300'(+) stack train up Ash Hill. BNSF 4748 and the head end can be seen in the distance.