Every time we go up the 15 fwy going which is a route to Vegas - we would turn off at the 2 hwy and go to Wrightwood where we lived for about a year and a half before we moved to these mountains. Before we ever moved to the mountains we lived in foothills with a view of the mountains for about 30 years and all those years looking at the mountains I never actually thought I would live up in them.
Wrightwood was a small mountain community (too small for me) but certainly charming. One of my favorite scenes when we were going in to the area or coming out and was to see the trains. I know somewhere in all my photo files I have many photos of these trains in all kinds of weather. Here are a few I found recently. They were taken this last year.
Right now because of rain and snow the hills are green again, but these were taken during summer last year so they look pretty dry. My youngest son - the only one who still lives in California lives not far from this area so every once in awhile i catch a glimpse of them when we visit him as these trains come down south and go under the freeway. The last photo is closer to his house. I was able to photograph that one while we were about two exits from getting off the fwy to go to his place.
I felt like posting something different than the many many many mountains photos I take and never get posted. We have snow coming again tomorrow. I hope it just leaves a dusting.
