Western Railroad Discussion > A few images from the "Pass" Saturday

A visit to Cajon Pass last Saturday provided lots of trains, including a few worth posting (at least in my humble opinion). The day started when I spotted an eastbound BNSF manifest at Devore before daylight. It was making good time and, from a distance, it looked like all clean power so the issue was where to find sunlight?

1) I decided to try Pine Lodge, at 7:04AM BNSF 3691 arrived in golden morning light. This was the same set running around last week with all clean Tier-4’s.

2) Trying to find a better overall angle, I barely beat him coming into Summit just as the sun rose above the mountains.

3) Back down at Cajon, I spied a fairly nice repainted GE facing out on the rear DPU of a UP westbound. UP 7024 at Blue Cut.
 

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4) Not much of a shot but another Tier-4 GE BNSF 3682W at Blue Cut a few minutes later.  

After several more nondescript trains, I had an appointment in Rancho Cucamonga so I left. Once finished, I was just getting on the freeway for home at 11AM when I heard the dispatcher calling the NS 4314E about a dogcatch crew in San Bernardino. A few minutes later I was back up at Devore to begin my wait.

5) It took a while and it was almost 1:30PM when the train showed up, long enough for the high-noon sun angle to be gone. NS 4314 and 4274 (the same units featured here yesterday by MrMRL) were followed by BNSF 6648 and 5145.

6) One more taken coming into Summit.

Since it’s fairly unusual to find NS leaders on eastbounds in SoCal, I have a possible theory. On my way out around 6:30AM, I heard a train (BNSF 51…something) wyeing its power down in San Bernardino. Just a guess but maybe this was that train and the NS’s were originally trailing? Either way, it turned out to be an interesting day. Hope you enjoy, thanks much for looking.

OYW
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/21 19:16 by oyw.

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Those engines seem to glow their so clean!  Very nice shots!

Another great bunch. Really like number three.
JB

Love the NS shots. Nice weather too.

Adam

Wonderful shots, thanks for sharing with us.

Tom

As always Bob, great pics and thanks for posting them!

Jerry

Nice series! Pool is Cool:}

Great group of photos of springtime in the Pass.

Rich

Great bunch of photos. Really enjoy all the clean power and especially the foreign power
Brian Stevens

Posted from iPhone

Very nice action captures!
GK

Good stuff, Bob. Thanks for sharing,

Ryan

Fantastic series!

Great set of images, Bob!  Every one of them caught my attention.  
- Kit

Kit Courter
Menefee, CA
LunarLight Photography

Very nice shots!  The first one is my favorite.

RC Lundgren
Elgin, TX

-Everyone of those very eye pleasing!

Thanks for all the positive comments.

Very nice..!!