Early morning at Summit with an eastbound manifest. Snow from the big Thanksgiving Day storm still lingering around.

Cresting Cajon Pass' summit one last time, all 1.2 million pounds of UP 4014 leads a 23-car passenger excursion, benefitting the Rail Giants Train Museum in Pomona, Calif., back to West Colton aft... (more)

Welcome back to California Big Boy 4014! History has been made on October 12, 2019 as the first and only 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" steam locomotive in the world crossed over the, nearly 4,000ft ... (more)

UP 4014, the only 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" steam locomotive in operation, pulls a 25 car long passenger special over the 3,800 ft high summit of Cajon Pass on Oct. 12, 2019. Fans from all over ... (more)

Cajon Summit - Above The Crowd. With the rear of its train clear of the switch at Silverwood, UP 4014 and it's train of 23 passenger cars prepare to crest the summit of Cajon Pass as at lea... (more)

October 9, 2019, was an historic day as Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4014 became the first “Big Boy” steam locomotive to operative under steam over southern California’s Cajon Pass! The big engine... (more)

1,990 Days Later. Just 10 days shy of the 2,000 mark from the day it last traveled over Cajon Pass, April 28, 2014, when it begin it's road to restoration - UP 4014 triumphantly returns to ... (more)

It has been almost six decades since 4014 ran under its own power. Here, we see the great locomotive pass the siding in Summit.

BNSF 9431 brings up the rear of a rare grain load as it passes thru Summit and begins the trip down Cajon Pass.

Despite being a port city, neither the port nor the railroad in San Diego has the necessary cranes and other equipment to handle intermodal trailers or containers. And yet, on July 15 the BNSF in... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-SBDALT9-27 has just about conquered the crossing of southern California's Cajon Pass as it rounds the last curve before crossing the summit. BNSF ES44DCs 7853 and 7679 and ES... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-LBPLPC1-17 approaches Summit at the top of southern California's Cajon Pass, on a beautiful March 18, 2019, day. This intermodal train is Long Beach CA PCT to Logistics Park ... (more)

Spring is just around the corner, but the San Gabriel Mountains are still covered in a fair amount of snow on March 18, 2019. BNSF Railway train S-LBTCLO1-17 (Intermodal Stacks, Long Beach CA Pie... (more)

BNSF Railway train BNSF Z-SBDWSP9-21, carrying high-priority trailers headed for Willow Springs, Illinois, rounds the last curve on its ascent of its first series challenge to gravity since depart... (more)

On February 21, 2019, a cold storm rolled across southern California, and snow levels were predicted to be their lowest in years - or even decades. While snow did fall lower than normal (down the... (more)