In the late afternoon golden light, Amtrak 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, continues its climb up Tehachapi as it leans into the well photographed curve here just short of Tunnel 2.

The Pacific Railroad Society's 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Special drifts downgrade through Caliente with Amtrak's freshly painted Phase I Anniversary unit, the AMTK 156, on the point of toda... (more)

The hills in the Tehachapi Mountains are a golden brown as a Southern Pacific freight rounds the horseshoe curve at Caliente on July 31, 1982. A quartet of SD40T-2 diesels, led by SP 8360, is pro... (more)

DPUs bring up the rear of a UP manifest in the afternoon light, of a perfect fall day in the tunnel 2 area, as clouds continue to build over the hills east of Caliente, CA.

A BNSF manifest climbs it’s way up the Tehachapi Mountains and is approaching Tunnel 2, in the late afternoon light of a cloudy winter day.

DPUs on a south bound UP manifest push through the Caliente Canyon, by a north bound UP manifest, and into the town of Caliente on a perfect spring afternoon.

A Santa Fe 991 train thunders out of the Caliente Creek Narrows with a long string of pigs bound for Chicago.

A southbound Union Pacific vehicle train curves out of Tunnel 1 above Caliente, California, while climbing the grades of Tehachapi Pass on February 27, 2016.

BNSF 6945 exits the short tunnel two as it rolls downgrade toward Caliente and Bakersfield.

As an eastbound Southern Pacific manifest trains crawls uphill towards Caliente, Cotton Belt 7266 is running long hood forward back to Bakersfield after helping a train up Tehachapi Pass.

Having just passed through the first of many tunnels, Amtrak 11 climbs out of Caliente and toward Tunnel 2 as it detours over Tehachapi.

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 Calient... (more)

SP 9346 slowly leads SP 7500 west as the trail end of the train goes around the Caliente Curve. Soon the train will be speeding downhill towards Bakersfield. The cows, well, they don't seem to b... (more)