A westbound Santa Fe manifest, powered by a half-dozen GP30’s and GP35’s, passes over the track that it will soon occupy after it navigates the Tehachapi Loop.

With five SD’s in charge, a forty car eastbound Santa Fe TOFC train negotiates the Tehachapi Loop at Walong.

Running as BNSF bare table train B-SIFLAC4-18, this repositioning move of mostly empty FedEx trailers made for a nice consist heading for the town of Tehachapi behind BNSF GE duo, ES44DC 7222 and ... (more)

Running as BNSF bare table train B-SIFLAC4-18, this repositioning move of mostly empty FedEx trailers made for a nice consist on the famous Tehachapi Loop behind BNSF GE duo, ES44DC 7222 and ES44C... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe freight crosses over itself as it winds around the famous Tehachapi Loop on its climb from the San Joaquin Valley to the summit in the town of Tehachapi. Santa Fe SD45 5596,... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal begins to quickly illuminate the inside of the cut, just below the Tehachapi Loop, on the start of another warm Tehachapi summer night.

We're enjoying the show atop Tunnel 9 as nine Santa Fe units bring a manifest out of Tunnel 8 and around the Tehachapi Loop. I recall the sounds of the SD's from this vantage point were pretty de... (more)

UP 4686 leads a long southbound intermodal train around Tehachapi Loop. At the time Walong siding still existed at the loop. Today this view would include a second main track (Main 2) where the ... (more)

A quartet of BNSF GE C44-9Ws power an eastbound intermodal train out of Tunnel 10 just east of Walong, California, on March 14, 2005.

A BNSF intermodal train climbs the grade through Tehachapi Loop at Walong, California, on March 14, 2001. The middle part of the train can be seen crossing over Tunnel 9 of the actual loop itself ... (more)

Repeating a scene that occurred countless times, an eastbound Santa Fe pig train traverses the Tehachapi Loop while a westbound waits for it to clear the single track.

A BNSF intermodal train works it's way around Tehachapi Loop while a lone individual documents the action further down the hill.

A UP mixed train rolls upgrade through Tehachapi Loop on a beautiful day in the mountains just north of Mojave California.

Santa Fe 8703 West waits in the siding at the Loop for a meet with SP's Tehachapi Mountain Local.

A BNSF stack train heads south up the Tehachapi Mountains, and around the loop, under a cloud covered winter sky.