Climbing out of the Mojave Desert and into the Tehachapi's two new ET45AHs, UP 2571 and 2584, bookend a pair of 8000s as the MWCRVB climbs the grade at Warren. Soon the Mojave Subdivision will cro... (more)
Emerging from the confines of the Cache Creek narrows UP's eastbound QRVWC carefully slips down the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade. On the point are three new Union Pacific 2600 series (2610... (more)
Lingering storm clouds lay atop the Tehachapi range as a trio of new Union Pacific ET45AHs hold back eastbound tonnage as it leaves the mountains for the crossing of the vast Mojave Desert.
With the Tehachapi's locked in under a thick layer of cloud cover 19 copies of Union Pacific's first class varnish emerge into the warm afternoon sunlight at Warren, located on the eastern slope o... (more)
'Just a common sense plan' was how William Hood, civil engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, described the engineering landmark that we all know today as the Tehachapi Loop. It was under the... (more)