Cajon Pass in HDR - Crossing Over Cajon Style

While seeking the sunrise shots at I wrote about it the post entitled Sleepless Summit Sojourn Seeking Sunrise (I couldn’t resist!) in Cajon Pass I caught a couple of westbounds. Those opportunities offered a backlit train and shimmering rails - a long time favorite shot of mine. 

Here is a series of photos of one westbound BNSF stack train that is crossing over at the summit crossovers from track #3 to track #2. Typically, because of the different grades on each track, trains use reverse running over a good portion of the run over the Cajon Subdivision. (Reverse running is akin to driving on the wrong side of the road - like those crazy Brits do!)

Crossing Over 1 - BNSF 5095 West rounds a curve at Summit, on BNSF’s Cajon Subdivision. It will crossover from the track #3 to track #2 at the bottom crossover.
[9/12/2010 - Cajon Subdivision] © Copyright 2010, Joe Perry

Crossing Over 2 - BNSF 5095 West crosses over from the track #3 to track #2 at Summit on BNSF’s Cajon Subdivision.
[9/12/2010 - Cajon Subdivision] © Copyright 2010, Joe Perry

Crossing Over 3 - BNSF 5095 West crosses over from the track #3 to track #2 at Summit on BNSF’s Cajon Subdivision.
[9/12/2010 - Cajon Subdivision] © Copyright 2010, Joe Perry