With air rushing from the lead truck and kicking up a slight cloud of ballast dust, BNSF 8022 eases a heavy grain train downgrade and into Woodford with a small splash of orange foliage providing ... (more)

4 units power the ZSTOWSP as it crosses Tehachapi creek between Woodford and Walong.

Santa Fe red and silver FP45 No. 98 leads a long pig train up the steep grade at Woodford, CA. The morning fog hasn't yet burned off, and the 98 looked like phantom apparition when it appeared fro... (more)

A consist of six 4-axle units haul a manifest up the steep grade at Wpodford, CA, bound for Barstow.

As a Santa Fe westbound rolls downhill with coiled steel near the head end, an SP work train waits to exit the short siding. Up to the early 1980s, both the north and shorter south siding were con... (more)

An eastbound ATSF pig roars past the trackside indicator at the east end of Woodford and heads for the 4th crossing of Tehachapi Creek. Before the widespread use of radio communication on the SP, ... (more)

A Santa Fe eastbound passes huge stacks of used ties at Woodford. SP has recently replaced ties on a large stretch of the pass, and piled all of them here for disposition. With the increasing use ... (more)

After completing its trip around the Tehachapi Loop, a westbound Santa Fe train approached Woodford.

An eastbound Santa Fe train negotiates the horseshoe curve east of Woodford as it approaches the Tehachapi Loop.

A heavy southbound HVAWBAR works up the siding at Woodford where it will meet a northbound UP manifest.

Late afternoon sun illuminates an eastbound ATSF freight behind a solid blue-and-yellow consist. The lead unit is a former Amtrak SDP40. This was, unfortunately, the day of the Oklahoma City feder... (more)

Santa Fe's hot eastbound TOFC train runs through drizzle and mist behind an A-A-B-A-A combination of EMD and GE road switchers.

Two big SD45-2s lead a heavy Santa Fe manifest up the steep grade at Woodford. The eastbound will meet an SP on the Loop that is already in the hole waiting for it. Some of Santa Fe's 45-2s are st... (more)

A Loram rail grinder works its way down the main line at Woodford, CA, taking off the top thin layer of the rail head and leaving a criss-cross diamond pattern there after it passes. The sparks fr... (more)

On a warm afternoon in the spring of 1988, a Santa Fe westbound with four-axle locomotives for power heads downhill at Woodford. Rebuilt GP30u (for "upgrade") No. 2759 is in the lead wearing the r... (more)