Snow is falling at Cajon (elevation 3,116-feet), but at Summit (seven miles away, but at 3,775-feet altitude) the sun is out. While snow this heavy at Cajon is not unheard of, it only occurs ever... (more)

An 11,142-foot intermodal train, running just 37 hours 13 minutes late, passes through the station of Prado Dam, named for the adjacent Prado Dam (visible above the freeway signs on the lef... (more)

Nearly two hours after BNSF train Q-NWHLAC6-30 stopped about six-miles east of Summit, due to chronic Positive Train Control (PTC) and Trip Optimizer programming failures, the train arrives at Caj... (more)

Adjacent to the Santa Ana River’s Prado Dam is the "station" named Prado Dam. At one time it was in rural Riverside County, at the eastern end of Santa Ana Canyon, in which the Santa ... (more)

As Union Pacific train UP F-ILBDV01-04I, with UP ES44AC 7760 as the rear Distributed Power Unit (DPU), grinds up Cajon Pass, BNSF Railway train Q-NWHLAC6-30 pops out from behind it on another main... (more)

After a series of stops due to issues with the locomotives’ Positive Train Control (PTC) and Trip Optimizer programming, BNSF train Q-NWHLAC6-30 was able to get the systems working all right and... (more)

Bringing up the rear of BNSF Railway train Q-NWHLAC6-30 is one of the railway’s ten 25th Anniversary engines, in this case ES44AC 6075. And someone who assigns power didn’t follow the edict t... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-NWHLAC6-30 leans into a curve as it heads west toward Cajon Pass. BNSF ES44AC 5750 and British Columbia Railway Dash 9-44CW 4653 are leading this 11,142-foot long intermodal ... (more)

Winter is but one day old, yet the autumn colors on trees along Cajon Creek are still abundant as BNSF Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-NWHLAC0-19L (North Baltimore OH to Los Angeles CA) desc... (more)

As BNSF Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-NWHLAC0-19L (North Baltimore OH to Los Angeles CA) descended Cajon Pass behind Norfolk Southern AC44C6M 4289 (rebuilt from NS Dash 9-40CW 9033 in May ... (more)

With the engines maxed out, BNSF's Q-NWHLAC6-14X intermodal train is seen gripping over the top of a grade near Edelstein behind an SD70ACe leader, BNSF 9051. The morning's fog has lifted just eno... (more)