A winter storm has dumped snow on the mountains and cleared out the LA smog as Southern Pacific 7345 leads a SD-45 and three SD45T-2s eastbound up Banning Pass near the summit.
Just a few miles west of reaching the apex of the grade on Beaumont Hill, an eastbound UP intermodal train passes through the rural countryside located near Hinda in San Timoteo Canyon.
With an older SD70M on the point, an eastbound UP auto train rounds the big curve west of Beaumont at Nicklin, and will soon be rolling downgrade into the low desert toward Palm Springs and Yuma.