The Tehachapi Mountains in the distance. A Roger Puta Photograph
The hogger on this westbound BNSF manifest is milking every horsepower from each of his six locomotives as they roar through Sandcut in last light.
Late in the afternoon, with thick haze from machinery in the oil fields of the southern San Joaquin Valley diminishing the sunlight, a hot Santa Fe pig train coming off the mountain meets an eastb... (more)
The dispatcher crosses over a Santa Fe eastbound at Sandcut from Track Two to Track One. As soon as the SP's conductor is finished with his roll-by, the SP will proceed down the hill into Bakersfi... (more)
CREX 1348 leads a Vancouver, WA to Barstow, CA manifest at Sandcut as it enters the Tehachapi Mountains.
With movie cameras mounted on the lead locomotive, a special 4-car BNSF train for an upcoming IMAX production cruises north through Sandcut just minutes before sunset on Union Pacific's Mojave Sub... (more)
Nearing Bakersfield, a northbound Amtrak special bound for Modesto and ultimately Sacramento glides through Sandcut on Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision.
Painted in the failed SPSF merger "Kodachrome" scheme Santa Fe SD45 5364 leads Santa Fe's hottest of the hot 199 train around the big curve near Sandcut.
A BNSF stack train races through Sandcut.
BNSF 3943 leads a Stockton to Willow Springs Z train through Sandcut as it enters the Tehachapi Mountains.
CREX 1211 north passes Sandcut on it's way to Bakersfield and a crew change.
A single DPU shoves on the rear of train ABESPX as it passes the crossovers at Sandcut.
A westbound manifest pounds up the short but steep hill between Bena and Sandcut
CSXT 3176 south works through Sandcut as it enters Tehachapi Pass.
A nice new UP GE leads this Northbound stack up the slight grade approaching Sandcut.