Leaving the wide open Tehachapi Valley the rails of Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision trades positions with the Tehachapi Creek before coming to ride above the creek's southern bank as the two, a... (more)

14 years removed from the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City Union Pacific SD70M 2002 still wears its commemorative colors well as it commands the westbound ZLCLT down the Tehachapi grade. The... (more)

Leaving the wide open Tehachapi Valley the Mojave Subdivision treads the Tehachapi Creek into the Tehachapi Creek Narrows between Cable and Marcel. The colorful containers on Union Pacific's hotsh... (more)

With its containers and trailers highlighting the Mojave Subdivisions precarious perch high above Tehachapi Creek, an eastbound BNSF Z train works up the western slope at Cliff. Nestled down in th... (more)

UP ET45AH 2598 has command of an eastbound Roseville to West Colton manifest, pulling the grade between tunnels 7 & 8. Just beyond the edge of the right of way is the long drop off down to Tehacha... (more)

Westbound stacks drop down grade at Tehachapi's famous Loop.

Trading distance for elevation Southern Pacific's Civil Engineer William Hood was able to take his railroad out of the Caliente Valley and over the once thought insurmountable Tehachapis. In just ... (more)

Battling up the western slope of the Tehachapi grade at the bottom end of Marcel is BNSF's eastbound loaded coil steel train, running with three big road motors on the point and aided by two more ... (more)

Climbing out of the Tehachapi foothills and into the Caliente Creek narrows BNSF's eastbound Q STOCHI works through the tunnel 1/2 (half) cut on its ascent to Caliente. Southern Pacific's original... (more)

With Tehachapi's rolling hills still hanging on to Spring Union Pacific's westbound MWCRVC carefully slips down grade at Cliff. Leaving Rowen the Mojave Subdivision occupies a narrow shelf carved ... (more)

Slipping under the old cantilever signal bridge in downtown Tehachapi, UP's westbound West Colton to Fresno, CA manifest is led by Denver & Rio Grande heritage unit #1989. No stranger to the Tehac... (more)

With the cool of the evening settling in over the Tehachapi mountains the normality of a Friday evening in downtown Tehachapi is greeted by the roar of eastbound BNSF tonnage, pulling the grade th... (more)

A trademark of Tehachapi's eastern slope, the old Southern Pacific era iron frame signal bridge at MP 377 frames a westbound BNSF double stack train as it crawls out of the desert and into the Teh... (more)