Wide angle shot of UP manifest ascending the Tehachapi Loop

12mm shot looking northwest from the hill above the loop. The horseshoe curve and bridge over Tehachapi creek below the loop can be seen in the center of the photo.

Crossing Tehachapi Creek on the horseshoe between Woodford and Walong

Cab level shot from a few feet away, UP 8400 is ascending the loop as a short BNSF manifest waits in the siding at Walong.

Maintenance of way is on the siding at Walong as UP 5780 leads an empty NB manifest down the loop. This would be the last train down for over an hour as MoW worked on the north switch.

Taking the main after a meet, BNSF 4616 hits the south switch as it accelerates out of Bealville.

Coming off the loop and about to duck into Tunnel 10

Coming through "The Narrows" with a refrigerated train

DPU power seen from above Caliente.

5436 and foreign AC power have just emerged from Tunnel 1 behind the bend.

5770 about to enter Tunnel 2

Continuing on its journey west, BNSF 4714 gets the main as it passes 1044 in the siding at Caliente. The crew of 1044 is out for the roll by.

Parting shot for March 23, BNSF 4574 and sister work the back end of this unit train as it heads into the setting sun.

BNSF 5841 leading WB stacks into the evening sun at Bealville.

5773 descending around the horseshoe at Caliente