BNSF's fleet of EMD SD70ACes are somewhat of an oddity in California, normally spending their time hauling coal out of Wyoming's Powder River Basin or roaming former BN lines in the north and east... (more)

Slithering up the siding at Rowen a eastbound BNSF stack train enjoys the final rays of sunlight before the sun slips below Tehachapi's rolling hills. With the sun's departure the cool of the even... (more)

The reefers, stacks, and pigs on BNSF's Q RICWSP highlight the contours of the Mojave Subdivision as it traverses the western slope of the Tehachapi grade at one of its most remote points. The hea... (more)

It has often been said of Tehachapi that it resembles a 1:1 scale model railroad, so in a scene that one might only expect to find on a model railroad we are reminded that this is 1:1 scale mounta... (more)

Looking towards the former station of La Rose, eastbound tonnage slithers down the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade in the Cache Creek narrows, following the contours of the creek's northern b... (more)

Racing for South Mojave….marching across the desert towards Mojave for the assault on the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade, UP's 'class' ET45AH #2570 brings up the rear of the westbound MWCR... (more)

Illuminated by the morning sun Amtrak's eastbound Pacific Surfliner, train #774, hustles across the Gaviota Trestle on it's way towards Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and eventually San Dieg... (more)

Drifting down the Cajon grade a load of continuously welded rail trail a pair of EMD SD70Ms on the former SP Palmdale-Colton cutoff. This is roughly MP 473 on Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision be... (more)

Situated 400 rail miles from Southern Pacific's MP 0.0 in San Francisco sits Oban, CA. Worlds away from the urban metropolis and seaside wharfs of San Francisco, Oban sits on the floor of the Moja... (more)

As a pouring rain brings new life to Tehachapi's rolling hills, BNSF's westbound 'Super Bowl Express drifts down grade behind tier IV ET44C4 #3951. The special train is rolling across the 4th cros... (more)

18 pieces of BNSF's polished varnish trail an equally polished ET44C4 en route to Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, CA. Drifting down the western slope of the Tehachapi grade above Clear Creek Ravine ... (more)

With its leader proudly displaying daylight red & orange the eastbound 'Roper' slips through the curves at the west entrance to Afton Canyon on Union Pacific's Cima Subdivision.

Pulling the stiff grade up the eastern slope of the Tehachapi range, Union Pacific's westbound MWCRVC enters the Cache Creek narrows, leaving behind the Mojave Desert. After crossing Cache Creek b... (more)

As the morning sun peaks above the horizon, casting the first rays of the day on the sleepy hamlet of Mojave, BNSF 4030 drops into town trailed by a eastbound 'baretable'.

The sound of howling brakes and screaming flanges reverberate off the hills that ring Clear Creek Ravine as UP 8159 carefully drops down grade into Bealville. In moments 8159 will enter the east p... (more)