BNSF DPUs push on the rear end of their south bound stack train, curving around the horseshoe curve at Allard and up through tunnel 2 on a perfect weathered day in spring.

One from the great spring of 2016 in the Tehachapi foothills. As rain clouds continue to gather and retreat at the same time above Caliente, Tehachapi rail traffic continues to move along nicely w... (more)

A BNSF intermodal twists and descends the Tehachapi Loop, in early afternoon light, on a hot triple digit degree day in the Tehachapi's.

A long BNSF intermodal climbs the hill south and around the Tehachapi Loop, in the mid morning light of a late summer's day, as the train's tail end is seen approaching the north portal of tunnel ... (more)

Motion blur of a DPU.

On a cold January morning, from above Keene, CA's horseshoe curve, an extra length BNSF manifest climbs the grade south, wrapping around the curve, as central valley fog can be seen hovering over ... (more)

A south bound BNSF loaded flat car train twists around the Tehachapi Loop in a late morning light of January 2016.

Night action on Tehachapi can sometimes be much better to photograph than during the day lighted hours. As a south bound BNSF intermodal is seen here slowly moving it’s way along up grade betwee... (more)

On a pleasantly cool summer morning, east of Rocklin, CA at the base of the Sierra Nevada foothills, an east bound Union Pacific intermodal begins it’s climb up the number 2 track, blasting out ... (more)

After traveling most of their trip in darkness, the crew on this UP intermodal from LA quickly round their final curve off the west slope of the Tehachapi’s, at Sandcut, during the early hours o... (more)

Under some extreme haze in the western Tehachapi's, a south bound BNSF intermodal wraps itself around Caliente's horseshoe curve in the mid-morning hours of a winter's day.

Clinging to the side of Cliff, the slow progress of a West Colton bound manifest can be seen climbing the grade of Tehachapi in the very early hours of a perfect spring morning. The UP train on th... (more)

Amtrak #5 is drifting west down the ridge line at Emigrant Gap, beside interstate 80, toward Sacramento, CA. The clouds above scatter across the eastern skies and over the Tahoe National Forest of... (more)

On an extremely hot, triple digit afternoon in the Tehachapi's, a squeaky clean Tier 4 loops it's south bound BNSF intermodal around the horseshoe curve below the Tehachapi Loop, swinging back tow... (more)

The calm after the storm, of a south bound BNSF grain train climbing up the west slope of the Tehachapi's, is in the hissing form of a flashing rear end device slowly curving a trail up the curves... (more)