BNSF 693 leads a bare table through Sandcut.

BNSF 7916 heads for Tehachapi Pass as the sun sets over Bakersfield.

Union Pacific 3872 heads away from the late afternoon sun.

As the morning sun reunites itself with Tehachapi's golden hills the sound of dynamic brakes pierce the cool morning air in the Caliente Valley. BNSF 5309 has just finished the most daunting porti... (more)

BNSF 4925 pulls hard, climbing the first hill out of Bakersfield. The setting sun casts a halo of vibrant colors as the train passes in front of it.

A Union Pacific stack train crests the last Northbound grade on Tehachapi Pass, from here, 12 miles of straight, mostly downhill track lies ahead of the crew on their way to Bakersfield.

UP 8484 heads up an inter-modal train, Northbound at Bealville.

The setting sun and storm clouds combine to create colorful contrasts that surround BNSF 7418 at Sandcut.

Both North and Southbound trains occupy the siding at Bealville, while BNSF 7842 glides down the main line.

Waiting at Sandcut for a fleet of Northbound trains, the sun drops below the clouds and illuminates the flanks of BNSF's Richmond, CA to Alliance, TX guaranteed intermodal train.

BNSF 4523 rolls through a pocket of light cast through a break in a small thunderstorm.

BNSF 6847 drops downgrade between tunnels 5 and 3, just South of Bealville.

With the sun about to slip below the skyline the sky glows with the last rays of sunlight as the classic old SP cantilever signal bridge carries on its duties protecting the Sandcut cross-over. On... (more)

The Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL "Z" train thunders through Sandcut in perhaps the final sunset shot I will capture with the aging cantilever signal as the centerpiece.

The peaceful calm of a spring morning in the Tehachapi pass is shattered by four hard working GE motors as they do battle with the stiff grades and seemingly endless number of curves that rule the... (more)