On Saturday morning, dark and early, a group of like minded amateur photographers met up for an early morning photo shoot. The place we picked was Mormon Rocks in Cajon Pass, (the 15 Freeway's route out of the LA Basin into the High Desert and beyond to Salt Lake City.) I have wanted to visit this place since the late 90's and although I have driven through there many times I have never stopped for a closer look. My reason for wanting to visit this area is probably a little bit morbid. Having been a train driver, I wanted to visit the scene of a train crash that happened here. At 4:10AM on February 1st 1996 the four locomotives and forty five of the forty nine cars that formed the freight train known as H-BALT1-31 left the rails on the curve photographed above; the resulting pile of twisted metal then caught fire and burned for three days. Sadly, two of the three train crew on this train died and the third, the engineer, was seriously injured. I dedicate this photo to their memory...