Looking East at MP 98 - After exiting the east portal of Tunnel 7 and traveling a bit more around the mountain, one comes to mile marker 98. About another 0.7 miles around the corner is ... (more)

Gorge Siding - After exiting the east portal of Tunnel 7 and traveling another half mile or so, one comes around a bend in the track and is presented with this view of three "Societe d... (more)

Picked Switch -A set of five (5) former Chicago Northwestern (CNW) commuter cars that were acquired by Chicago Metra (METX) and later sold as surplus lies derailed across the turnout at Dub... (more)

Builders Plate - The rail line through the Carrizo Gorge was constructed starting in 1906 and it opened in 1919. Here, an old Santa Fe hopper stands on a siding at Goat Canyon next to t... (more)

Semaphore Signal at Goat Canyon - One of the two bridge signals (one at each end) that let train crews know that the large wooden trestle at Goat Canyon was intact and passable. The idea... (more)

Vanishing Point - One of the Seven Sisters arcs off into the distance with the moon above as the sun begins to set over the Sonoran Desert. This railroad was embargoed in 2008 and there... (more)

Transcisco EMD F7(B) 101 at Jacumba California 2015 - Transcisco Tours was an operating company that owned passenger equipment and motive power that was operated as Amtrak charter trains on... (more)

Corner Bridge - One of the many trestle bridges on the Desert Line skirts the hill side as it snakes it's way through the Carizzo Gorge.

East Switch of Carrizo Gorge Siding - A bolder has rolled off the hill side and lodge against the siding rail. While the mainline is passable at this point, there are other rock falls at... (more)

Marooned in the Gorge - I found this siding listed as "Carrizo Gorge Siding" on an old topo map of the area and it is not referenced in my copy of the Altamont California Region T... (more)

West Portal to Tunnel 11 - Looking east at the west portal to Tunnel 11.

Yellow Box Wreck - On or about May 5, 1965, a student engineer on his first day of work accelerated too fast around the turn by passing Tunnel 7 and this yellow box car derailed. The car... (more)

Vestibule to Nowhere Awaiting a meet that will never arrive, THPX 801 sits like a ghost on Carrizo Gorge Siding with the empty mainline in the foreground. The turn in the mainline that ru... (more)

East Siding Switch - I found this siding listed as "Carrizo Gorge Siding" on an old topo map of the area and it is not referenced in my copy of the Altamont California Region Tim... (more)

Goat Canyon - Built in 1932 to by pass a tunnel that had collapsed in an earthquake (located to the right, out of the frame) the trestle at Goat Canyon in the Carrizo Gorge is over 180 feet... (more)