Amtrak's Southwest Cheif nears its western destination as it drifts by Cajon Pass.

Westbound train with a great typical SP paint job.

A westbound is dragging up the to the summit past the late lamented ATSF tunnel. I believe that's snow-capped Mt. San Antonio in the background condescending on the feeble efforts of mortal man.

On what may have been my last trip to CA I caught this "down train" beaten and battered but still magnificent doing its job.

On SP's version of Sullivan't curve this eastbound is regarded as a temporary annoyance by the ageless rocks.

5446 shoves past the great sandstone formations at Pine Lodge.

While the era of the caboose is long gone, this new era of the DPU isn't half bad. Something on the end is always better than nothing!

A westbound stack train rounds the curve at Cajon Campground on Main Track 3.

Just another westbound but with a fairly unusual visitor.

Nice collection of semi-junk lugging another train westbound over the Palmdale cutoff. As I recall this was a one unit helper train.

Classic SP and the whole train in the shot. This great assortment of semi-junk is lugging a westbound over the Palmdale Cutoff. No the sun doesn't always shine in California.

After only see a handful of ATSF paint across New Mexico and Arizona, the flood gates opened in California. Between the AZ/CA state line and Cajon, I would guess that half of the trains I saw had ... (more)

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