Amtrak FL9 No 486 arrives at Croton Harmon with the northbound Adirondack. The car park (parking lot) is nearly empty as this was a Sunday.

This is the WB "Desert Wind" crossing the iconic culvert.

These were regulars on the Auto Train in their latter years.

NB "Silver Star"

SB "Silver Star"

westbound Amtrak train #35, the "Desert Wind" rounding "drawbar flats" curve above Cajon, CA site of an unfortunate and fatal derailment of a runaway train coming down the pass a few years later.

Amtrak Santa Barbara to San Diego train #774 descending Santa Susanna pass passing the "Chatsworth Rocks" in Chatsworth, CA

Laying over for the whole day.

The northbound "Silver Star" has this grizzled veteran in charge of this date.

The southbound "Cresent" is on NS tracks, passing a Midsouth unit. This is one of the better train watching sites in the south.

Crossing the old C&O Piedmont Division main is this NB train on an extremely hot and muggy day. Odd that RF&P sprung for a whole bunch of these really well built towers and apparently they never ... (more)

The EB "Desert Wind" is winding it out on the closest thing to a racetrack on the west side on Cajon Pass as the Inland Empire is splayed out in the background on this unusually nice day.

SB "Portland Rose"

WB "Desert Wind" #35 with a mix of high level cars.

Eastbound "California Zephyr" back in the days of material handling cars.