Cajon Pass

One of the places that has always fascinated me even while I was driving trains in England was Cajon Pass (pronounced Cahon for you Brit's). The route through Cajon Pass was built in 1885 as part of the Barstow to San Diego line by the California Southern Railroad. The pass has a grade of just over 2% and is one of the major rail routes out of the Los Angeles Basin and the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the rest of the United States. Cajon Pass is notorious with rail fans all over the world probably for the 3 infamous crashes that have taken place along it's route. The most well known crash was the Duffy Street Disaster in San Bernardino in 1989 when a train lost it's brakes and ran away, derailed and crashed onto the houses of Duffy St.

It's only taken me 10 years to go and take some photos along the route of the trains travelling along it, but I found some great photo spots and I know there are more to explore.