Cadiz From A Caboose - Jack Delano - 1943

Before the wind break of Tamarisk trees. View looks east.

Bagdad USA - 1943

Bagdad, California - Santa Fe Railway - 1943

Bagdad, California - Looking East - Amboy Crater on the right.

Bagdad, California, east of both Siberia, and Klondike, and to further the geographic play fullness, on the same line as the famous Spanish Port of Cadiz!  There was once something of a townsite here, between the railroad and Route 66, with some of the palms lasting until recent history.

Bagdad today with not a palm tree in sight.

Riding Down Cajon Pass With Jack Delano - March 1943

Westbound  Santa Fe freight approaches Cajon Summit.

Train stopped at Cajon Summit, brakemen on top to set retainers.

Meeting the eastbound Chief.

Meeting the eastbound Chief.

Setting retainers at Cajon Summit.

Summit, California - Cajon Pass

Starting down Cajon Pass.

Going down Cajon on the South Track - MP57.

Near MP 60, South Track - San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.

Alray

Pine Lodge, California

Between Pine Lodge and Cajon - Note the debris barriers along the riverbank.

Cajon, California - North Track on the right.

Brake Club in hand at Cajon.

Cajon, California

Guard at the bridge at Devore.

Jack Delano never seemed to have rested with his camera. His photography for the Farm Security Administration, and the Office of War Information impress with his thoroughness and attention to detail.  Looking at his photos of the Santa Fe, taken in 1943, in the Library of Congress Archive, Delano apparently rode cabooses from Chicago to California, excepting for one photo that was taken from a observation platform.