In the early morning light of a winter day, a north bound BNSF intermodal quickly glides off the hill, between Ilmon and Bena, and is seconds from entering double tracking for the remainder of the... (more)

The sound of the Tehachapi Creek echoing through the deep, shadowy gorge below Cliff, creates a similar feeling of when standing by the Merced River in Yosemite Natural Park, while a north bound B... (more)

A short north bound UP hopper train works up into the Monolith area, on Tehachapi’s eastern slope, in the late afternoon sun of a cold winter day, while a low hanging cloud creates a great big s... (more)

In the midst of a hazy morning in the lower Tehachapi hills, a north bound BNSF intermodal drifts its way down the extremely saturated landscape, around the horseshoe curve through tunnel 2, and i... (more)

Within the hazy depths of the Caliente Canyon, a south bound BNSF intermodal, with a borrowed UP unit, echoes it’s way through the rocky hill sides and is minutes from entering the town of Calie... (more)

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

A short UP manifest climbs up the lower Tehachapi foothills and through the curves of Allard, catching the winter afternoon sun poking in and out of a patchy cloud sky.

A north bound UP manifest rounds the curve at Cliff and down into the Bealville area in the early light of a spring morning.

On a late summer morning in the higher Tehachapi Mountains, a south bound BNSF stack train works slowly up grade, passing through tunnels 14, 15, 16 and 17, between Marcel and Cable.

With another Tehachapi summer night underway, a south bound BNSF intermodal rumbles up grade and lights the right of way through the tight confines of the cut just below the Tehachapi Loop, while ... (more)

The DPUs on the rear of a UP Roseville, CA bound manifest glint in the late evening sun, as the train passes by tunnel 10, to the left, and then enters the Tehachapi Loop. The same train is seen j... (more)

On an extremely hazy morning at Marcel, a BNSF stack train twists it's way south up through the reverse curves above Tunnel 10 and the Tehachapi Loop. The construction to link up Walong and Marcel... (more)

The dark concreted enclosure of Tehachapi’s tunnel 3 lies quiet for the majority of the time, until the faint illumination of an approaching train begins to quickly light up the right of way out... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal glints in the morning light as it exits Caliente and approaches the Caliente canyon on a perfect spring morning. Up the mountain at Cliff, a south bound UP manifest c... (more)

In the early glinting hours of a perfect late spring morning in the lower Tehachapi hills, a north bound BNSF intermodal slowly drifts off the grade, through tunnel 1 and down into the Caliente va... (more)