After a crew change at UP's Bakersfield yard office at Baker Street, #14 is again on the move north as it smokes it up leaving town.
Early morning of July 4th finds this SJVR train tied down for the Independence Day Holiday on the old SP Arvin Branch. The 440 is a ex Florida East Coast unit now earning it's keep with the San Jo... (more)
Perhaps one of the greenest trips I ever made to Tehachapi was in 2006. Near the height of the building boom UP and BNSF were moving massive amounts of lumber across the Pass. In this photo, UP54... (more)
Alco S4 No. 1514 switches the east end of the yard.
Close-up of the SP "Oil Cans". Image shows the relatively large connecting pipe that ran from one tankcar in a set to another. The loaders and unloaders used these pipes to quickly load an entire ... (more)
A canadian visiter amongst a trio of Big Mac's
Some DPU's on a grain train roll North into the yard at Bakersfield. Traffic began building up as a Southbound UP manifest broke a coupler, tying up the mainline.
A Southbound BNSF intermodal blasts under one of only 4 remaning SP era signal bridges still standing on the Mojave Sub at Magunden.
Out on the Buttonwillow branch near Gosford Jct, finds a typical SJVR train with a mixed bag of power leading a 100+ car train west.
Amtrak California 2010 sits idle in Bakersfield next to the Amtrak 40th Anniversary Exhibit train.
8 units lead this Barstow bound freight out of Bakersfield towards Kern Jct, where it will enter UP rails for the trip over Tehachapi Pas.
Engine Crowd at Bakersfield
Westbound stack train between Ilmon and Caliente
After the UP pilot crew change at Bakersfield, AMT14 (04) accelerates out of Bakersfield and begins the race up the San Joaquin Valley.
