ExAmtrak SDP40F renamed by Santa Fe to an SD40F leads a westbound train between the stations of Ilmon and Bena

A hot double stack passes on old mill at Bena, Ca.

With Tehachapi Pass behind them, KCS 4807 is now on double track at Bena for the quick run to Bakersfield.

A loaded manifest passes a sitting double stack at Bena

A GEVO leads an empty well car train up the Tehachapi Mountains

SP 5311 meets another SP train with UP power in 1977

Some Cotton Belt heritage is approaching Bakersfield.

The end of double track at Bena, CA finds the conductor of a stopped southbound BNSF intermodal train on the ground to give a roll by to a northbound BNSF freight shortly after sunrise on a cool a... (more)

In the early morning light, a quartet of BNSF wide cabs pull a high priority Z train toward Bakersfield, after successfully traversing Tehachapi Pass.

Looking back towards Bena, this BNSF Northbound is leaving the Tehachapi's behind as it races towards Bakersfield. Note the bridge replacement on Bena road to the right of the photo.

After holding for northbound traffic, BNSF 7696 leads a southbound steel coil train into the Tehachapi's at Bena.

The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak 518 and Amtrak 517, is coasting down the short hill from Sandcut as it heads eastbound up Tehachapi Pass. Cotton ... (more)

As an SP engineer inspects and makes ready his helper power in the spur at Bena, a Santa Fe eastbound comes down the hill from Sandcut behind his locomotives in the fading light.

A Santa Fe 975 train passes fields of beautiful but poisonous Lupines as it climbs through Bena.