After spending the night camped next to the Kelso depot, the first eastbound of the morning had a big surprise, DD40 UP 6936 on the point! The train has stopped to switch out cars in the small Kel... (more)

Rolling by the Kelso depot is SD60M UP 6102 with a heavy container stack train

The Restored Union Pacific Station and crew quarters. Kelso was at one time a helper station with a roundhouse for steam engines for extra power to get trains over top of Cima Hill.

Union Pacific 3702 leads an eastbound down Cima Hill towards Kelso. The train is taking the siding at Hayden.

After picking up some maintenance-of-way cars in the small yard at Kelso, UP 6936 leads an eastbound manifest up Cima Hill. The town of Kelso in the distance to the right, and beyond are the Kels... (more)

After descending the steep grade of the western slope of Cima hill, UP 4014 is greeted by a huge crowd at the restored Kelso Station and helper crew quarters. In the steam era Kelso was a helper ... (more)

Long nose SD40-2 UP 3267 leads an eastbound up Cima Hill near Kelso, California.

The beautifully restored depot of Kelso on the Union Pacific Overland Route between Los Angeles-Barstow-Las Vegas and Salt Lake City was built in 1924 in the Spanish Mission Revival style, with a ... (more)

UP's depot and hotel at Kelso, Calif. was placed on the Register of National Historic Places, and the trees were cut down, the sod, brick platform and lamps were ripped out and replaced with a ste... (more)

One of the last passenger trains to pass Kelso was Amtrak's short-lived "Vegas Celebrity Train" which ran sporadically between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Behind an SDP40 and three F units, the tr... (more)

Kelso is perhaps the most out of place depot in the entire world. Surround by the Mojave desert, its 35 miles from the nearest anything, but feels about a thousands when you look out from beautifu... (more)

6207 leads a container train through Kelso, passing 6573 which was parked up.

Westbound stack train cruising down into Kelso, CA

After spending the night camped next to the Kelso depot, the first eastbound of the morning had a big surprise, DD40 UP 6936 on the point! The train has stopped to switch out cars in the small Ke... (more)

Climbing Cima Hill East of Kelso, four hours off their schedule