The quiet calm of a Spring morning in the Tehachapi mountains is interrupted by a labored roar, synonymous with Tehachapi's Hills for the better part of 140 years, the unmistakable battle cry hera... (more)

After getting hammered with 30 inches of snow the day before, the Arizona Divide looks like winter wonderland to start the new year of 2016. With another snow storm in background, BNSF's Flagstaff... (more)

Leaving the floor of the Caliente Valley at the conflux of the Caliente and Tehachapi Creeks, William Hood directed the rails of the Southern Pacific Railroad up the once thought insurmountable Te... (more)

On St. Patrick's Day the calendar still said winter and Mother Nature made sure to remind us of that fact. A pair of GP50s hustle the westbound Brainerd Local with 14 cars across Huson Trestle on ... (more)

NS 162 is crossing Mill Creek once again on it's journey east towards Linwood Yard. The very last car is visible at the top of the picture.

The famous Shakespeare Cliff in Dover - a great location for railfanning. Through the cliff two single line tunnels were built and opend in 1844. They have a rather unusual profile. Nowadays the l... (more)

A southbound BNSF stack train works uphill as it traverses the famous Tehachapi Loop at Walong, California. Three GE locomotives power the head end of the train while two more GEs in DP (distribut... (more)

Passing through colorful Red Canyon and crossing the Colorado River between Dell and Range, Colorado, is Union Pacific’s MNYRO freight on August 3, 2014. This location is on the Dotsero Cutoff o... (more)

With a dusting of spring snow in the high country along South Boulder Creek, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight heads east between Tolland and Rollinsville, Colorado, on April 12, 200... (more)

Tehachapi. The twisting grade between Tunnel One and Bealville is a stiff 2.1%. This westbound manifest heavy with lumber is climbing the grade as it enters the north leg of the Allard horseshoe.... (more)

Coming away from the second (of three) bridge crossings of the Mojave River, Union Pacific's eastbound West Colton, CA to North Platte, NE manifest slips through the heart of Afton Canyon. Origina... (more)

ABe 4/4 # 55 and 56 with train 1636 from Tirano to St.Moritz in the panorama curve of Alp Grüm, with Curnasel and Piz Canton in the background.

Absent the last few seasons on the mountain, Tehachapi's Spring wildflowers make their colorful return, brought up by winter rainfall. Slipping down the western slope of the Tehachapi's a westboun... (more)

One of the scenic highlights of the eastern United States is the Lehigh River Gorge north of Jim Thorpe PA. Here, steep hills (for the east at least) were cleaved by the Lehigh River. In the 1800'... (more)

As the sun sets on a unseasonably warm February evening, Amtrak #11 glides over the Arroyo Hondo trestle as it journeys down the coast toward Santa Barbara.