Late in the day on December 20, 1990, Santa Fe cowls head west through snow at the edge of the town of Tehachapi. The snow will stick around for about two weeks, since a good portion of California... (more)
Snaking Into A New Year. It's the first day of the new year as UP 6846 leads a southbound manifest through some rare Tehachapi snow and toward the first of many tunnels on the train's appro... (more)
Making the final push to Tehachapi Summit, UP 2619 lugs a colorful Herzog ballast train toward up the eastern face of the famous pass as the Monolith cement plant stands in the background.
A six-unit EMD helper assists SP's loaded Oil Cans up the last miles of the Tehachapi grade as the train tops the mountain in the town of Tehachapi. The plentiful exhaust from the EMDs clearly sho... (more)