Cajon Pass Trains
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A trio of freshly painted Superfleet FP45's are seen westbound at Sullivan's Curve in August of 1989.
D.R. Busse Photo
Luke Renish Collection
Apparently, these plants grow indoors with little care, as they are sometimes found in malls. I believe that their natural habitat is the rain forests of South America.
Thank you for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
BNSF intermodal ZMEMLAC822A begins its descent of Cajon Pass as rolls through the winter wonderland scenery on February 26, 2023.
BNSF 7097 East charges up Cajon’s western slope with train SLHGCLO126A approaching summit during a rare snow fall.
One of BNSF’s 720 ES44DCs leads westbound stack train SLPCLBT19L through snow covered landscape of summit on its way to the LA/LB ports.
A Santa Fe F45 leads a 51-car eastbound TOFC train through Cajon Pass. The summit is just around the next curve.
A quartet of BNSF gevos lug SLBTLPC125L up Cajon’s western slope rounding the curve just west of summit on their way to Elwood, Illinois.
Eastbound BNSF intermodal SLBTLPC125L begins the climb to Sullivan’s curve at CP Cajon headed for Logistics Park, Illinois.
Westbound UP manifest MNPWC approaches the Cajon creek bridge as it rolls down the 2% grade of the southern slope just about 30 minutes from its West Colton destination.
On Christmas Day 1969, Santa Fe F45 1903, with its original as-built number, descends Cajon Pass with westbound merchandise. Unfortunately for photographers, this curve was eliminated a few years later. This photo was taken 55 1/2 years ago on a beautiful, clear winter day in Southern California.
An unidentified westbound BNSF train is crossing Cajon Wash at MP 60.2 on modern day BNSF's Cajon Sub. They are dropping down the 2.2% double track route of the 1977 Santa Fe 'low grade' line, itself a slight reroute of the 1913 alignment. And the 1913 grade was also a reroute, built to supplement the original 1885 line over the pass which took a straighter and steeper 3% ascent that survives to this day as BNSF Main 3 (out of sight about a quarter mile behind me).
Rising beyond are the famed Mormon Rocks, a striking pink sandstone formation that served as shelter and an overnight campsite for a group of approximately 500 Mormon pioneers who traveled through the region by wagon in 1851 on their journey west to California, where they later founded the city of San Bernardino.
digital-desert.com/mormon-rocks/
There is a lot to take in and a lot to learn when you're here at this busiest of all mountain railroad passes! If you're a map person then check out this awesome work put together by the folks at Trains Magazine:
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Cajon Pass
San Bernardino County, California
Monday May 14, 2012
Running on the south track on Cajon Pass, the westbound Desert Wind is two hours into its journey from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City/Chicago.
My friends and I found Cajon to be a somewhat frustrating place. After getting the “easy” locations, we started to set up at the less-accessible spots. In this case, we were ready for trains on Santa Fe’s south track, and everything ran on the north track in both directions, and a few SP trains passed as well. Here an eastbound auto train climbs the grade with five GP35’s and a GP30 for power.
Doug Harrop Photography • September 25, 1974
From one of Doug's earliest visits to Cajon, a pair of DDA40X "Centennials" lead a hot trailer train, approaching Summit, California.
Quebrada ubicada en el sector de las Melosas en San José de Maipo.
A orillas del río Maipo, el principal cauce de la región metropolitana se puede encontrar un sin números de afluentes a este gran río.
Gorge located at the Melosas in San José de Maipo sector.
To banks of the Maipo River, the main channel of the metropolitan region can be found a number of tributaries to the great river.
33°50'28.7"S 70°12'45.8"W
The sun has just risen as UP 1996 leads a Salt Lake City to West Colton manifest west through a very frosty Cajon Summit.
UP 1996 drifts downgrade past the Mormon Rocks with a Salt Lake City to West Colton manifest on the drawbar.
Fotografía tomada del Cajón del Río Colorado al momento del descenso del trekking hacia el Mirador de Cóndores con cámara Nikon D3500
Photograph taken from the Colorado River Cajon at the time of the descent of the trek to the Mirador de Cóndores with a Nikon D3500 camera
Viewed from across a cut on the south track on Cajon Pass, a westbound Santa Fe train with 26 piggyback flats descends the Pass on the north track at 12:08 pm. Two GP35's bracket two GP30's on this train.
With a single SD70ACe on the head end Union Pacific 7616 has it's work cut out for it, as it shoves hard on 6,200 feet of of mixed containers from Salt Lake City. The Long Beach bound train has almost completed it's slow grind out of the Mojave Desert and will soon start it's big descent down Cajon Pass. The white backdrop was provided by three days of rain that gave the San Gabriel Mountains a rather good dusting of snow. Hope that everyone enjoys their Christmas whether there's snow or not.
This is my second time at the Cajon Pass Inn. I like it here. There is a bottle opener on the front of bathroom vanity. More a vibe than a utility. Out front is a gas station with no premade sandwiches or anything beyond coffee for breakfast. The worst feature here is loose electrical sockets. I’m here writing this and charging all the batteries after an evening of setting up to photograph a train at night, occasionally pushing the chargers back into the wall.
Still on East coast time, I woke early, bought my coffee and something like a comically large lunchable and walked off the dead end remnant of 66 into the desert searching for @gordofromearth. He has been in orbit around the desert in a RV school bus / space shuttle type situation.
I found the railroad security. I saw him driving along one line while I was walking along another. Through a culvert, up a wash and along another line, I was gone. Hours later the security guy returned. He let us stay and told us the hotel’s worst feature was the tweakers who stay there. He told us he’s deployed to a section of railroad to keep the cartels from hopping aboard and stealing its cargo. He told us he'd let the next guy know that we could stay and that we were cool.
Gordo parked at sundown yesterday and apparently went largely unnoticed. He noticed some seriously poor air quality. I saw it too, driving in around 2am, cones of light under every street lamp. By morning the wind had reversed and the smoke from the fires terrorizing LA had blown out to sea. As the afternoon wore on, the wind again revered course and the smoke filled the pass again.
We started setting up the lights knowing the smoke would give a most undesert-like hazy effect. At this point the steady stream on trains stopped. We stood on this windy ledge for two or three hours waiting for a train to come up the pass. We heard a train horn and saw the new security on shift driving up the road along the tracks looking around with a spot light - was this guy going to ruin the shot? He passed under us as the train slogged up the hill in front of us.
Doug Harrop Photography • July 1974
Santa Fe SD45 5586 has successfully reached the 3,777 ft. Summit of California's Cajon Pass. It appears Mr. Harrop may have been about to hear a word or two from the engineer.
Doug Harrop Collection • Original Photographer Unknown
This fabulous image was made on California's Cajon Summit, circa October 1970. The location is the original railroad crossing of the pass before the line change opened in 1972.
Creeping on approach to Cajon summit, UP 8259 leads a West Colton-bound manifest past Martinez Spur under moody skies.
(Elevated Discourse)
This area was recently scorched by a brush fire (not that it was ever known for it's scenic beauty).
BNSF and CSX rear DPU locos providing extra dynamic braking power to a massive harbor bound stack train
Westbound unit coal train approaching the flyover at Frost, California, east of Cajon Pass, November 20, 1988
Chicago & North Western liveried Dash 9-44CW 8681 leads a pair of Union Pacific SD60Ms and a SD40-2 on a Union Pacific stack train, as they enter Sullivan's Curve, Cajon Pass, California.
A visit to Cajon Pass, California on April 24, 1977 finds this Santa Fe GP35 3420 leading a GP30 and others across the mountain range.
BNSF 7530 West wheels JB Hunt stacks riding QATGLAC621L through Martinez spur nipping at the heels of MNPWC running just ahead.
A BNSF eastbound approaches Cajon Summit behind a rainbow consist that included BNSF, Santa Fe, Burlington Northern, Norfolk Southern and EMD/Oakway Leasing power.
BNSF 4902 C44-9W
BNSF ES44DC 7593 is seen leading an eastbound Z train up Cajon Pass at Alray - 18/03/2014
The rest of the photos from the trip are now @ www.milepost39.co.uk/mp39.asp?do=trip&id=16