Eastbound BNSF Stacks and TOFC load, wind through the Caliente Narrows towards the Caliente horseshoe curve and the start of the 2% grade to the top of the pass.
Eastbound BNSF 4901 leads a trio of Warbonnets through the Tehachapi loop uphill to the top of Tehachapi pass.
Eastbound Southern Pacific #8136 rounds the curves of Bealville as it climbs to the top of Tehachapi Pass.
UP's Lathrop to Los Angeles Z nears Tunnel 2 at Bealville as monsoon thunder clouds build over the near by mountain ranges.
As the days heat is surrendered to the night sky a cool breeze over takes the quiet plains of Tehachapi's eastern slope just above Mojave. Suddenly life comes to the old SP era signal bridge at MP... (more)
The San Joaquin Starlight returns.... The eastbound (southbound) Coast Starlight glides into Caliente behind P42 #113. The detour of AMT 11 (12) was brought about by track work on the northern en... (more)
Heavily laden with lumber loads from the Pacific Northwest UP 5371 drags the eastbound QRVWCB out of the Caliente creek narrows and into Caliente, with the power near MP 335. A spring storm is in ... (more)
Eastbound Southern Paacific 9809, rounds the curves of park like Bealville, climbing uphill towards Tehachapi.
The sounds and echoes of a heavy westbound grain train reverberate throughout Clear Creek Canyon on a warm summers day in the Tehachapi mountains. This short stretch of the Mojave Subdivision betw... (more)
That's no model railroad... its just Tehachapi. It's doubtful that many of the motorists driving up or down the paralleling 58 freeway, partially hidden in the foreground, truly grasp the awesome ... (more)
UP 7624 North leads a Lathrop bound intermodal through Clear Creek Revine between Cliff and Bealville.
BNSF 7770 charges upgrade out of Tunnel 2.
An example of the new "super slippers" leads up and Alliance, TX bound "Q" train at Tunnel 2.
The Stockton to Willow Springs "Z" train pulls hard up to Tunnel 2.
Last Rites for an old friend.