A short south bound Union Pacific manifest slithers it's way up through the curves at Allard in the late afternoon sun light as cloud shadows blanket the surrounding emerald hills. ... (more)

South bound BNSF manifest climbs the Tehachapi Loop during a break in a storm.

On a warm, late summer’s morning, just minutes after the sun peaked the eastern Tehachapi Mountains, a north bound BNSF manifest quickly glides down through the golden hills of Woodford, glintin... (more)

Late afternoon summer sun back lights the summit area of Tehachapi as a south bound UP manifest crests the hill during a strong wind storm kicking up a cloud of dust around the sprinting train tha... (more)

Spring in the lower Tehachapi foothills.

A Union Pacific intermodal climbs the Tehachapi grade through the green hills of Bealville on a clear spring day, as a patch of wild Lupines bask in the early afternoon sunlight along the hillside... (more)

Mid morning on a cool winter day in the lower Tehachapi’s brings the daily flow of morning north bounds down the mountain, through the majestic emerald foothills. Here, a BNSF intermodal glides ... (more)

Slowly poking out of tunnel 10 and into the summer morning sun is BNSF 6765 and her extremely long south bound stack train that requires 2 more locomotives right behind 6765 and an additional 2 on... (more)

A loaded down south bound Union Pacific manifest thunders up the Tehachapi Mountain’s western slope between tunnels 1 and 2 as a winter storm continues to gather in the east.

A BNSF stack train heads south up the Tehachapi Mountains, and around the loop, under a cloud covered winter sky.

A Union Pacific south bound QRVWC manifest has crested the Tehachapi summit and is beginning to race down grade by the cement plant in Monolith in the late summer afternoon sun.

In the last half hour of summer sun light, a glinted south bound BNSF intermodal races across the eastern Tehachapi valley and around the dried Proctor Lake during a wind storm that's kicking up d... (more)

As a sea of heavy fog lingers over the San Joaquin Valley in the distance, a pair of UP locomotives help bring a Roseville, CA bound manifest down grade, around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA in... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal slowly lights it’s way down through the curves at the south end of Marcel on a cold spring night in the upper elevations of the Tehachapi Mountains.

A north bound BNSF intermodal comes racing off the Tehachapi’s and around the mountain’s last curve at Sandcut under a rising moon above in the last minutes of sun light.