| Despite it being a famous landmark, we only had time to grab this shot of a BNSF train at the base of Cajon pass before finding a place to crash in Palm Springs. |
| Holy windmills, Batman!!! Early the next morning, we catch a UP train heading eastbound through Palm Springs. |
| They sure do have wierd restaurants out there in California. |
| A westbound UP train gains three ex-SP "SD45's" on the point for help over Beaumont Pass. |
| Three more "SD45's" on the tail of a second westbound pass by UP 9207 waiting in the hole for clearance. |
| 9207 gets clearance to move east, but has to take the siding again at Palm Springs to make way for a higher priority eastbound intermodal. |
| I'm sure that the crew got easily frustrated of being constantly "put in the hole", but from my perspective, it gave me extra time to compose photos while waiting for the eastbound. |
| We next move to a remote location just west of the Palm Springs station. Three SP "SD45's" break the lazy mesmerization of the windmills spinning into oblivion. |
| Two more UP westbounds roll by our location - I shoot the first one at 200mm, the second at 50mm with a polarizer. |
| After we decide to move towards San Timeteo canyon, another westbound sneaks up on us, with two fresh consecutive "Flag-n-Wings" units. With a find like this, we decide to haul ass to Cabazon to catch them again. |
| Two words: American Pride. |
| We move to the top of San Timeteo Canyon near Beaumont, and catch a westbound beginning to use the dynamic brakes as a snowstorm dusts the tops of the surrounding mountains. |
| The train wraps around the knoll that I am standing on, and the skies are radically different from this perspective. |
| With only two more minutes of sunlight to spare, one more westbound glides by in the orange glow, with a classic Rio Grande tunnel motor as the third unit. |
