BNSF 7368 slows for the horseshoe curve at Caliente.

Two Union Pacific manifest trains meet at Caliente. The Northbound train is long enough to capture the head end and rear end in the same frame.

BNSF 7897 rolls into Bakersfield.

Union Pacific's ILBOA container train makes good time as it speeds through the curves at Sandcut. Today's train is pool power friendly as it sports a KCS Gevo on each end.

BNSF 5387 pulls through the "S" curve approaching Ilmon.

BNSF 4399 thunders upgrade towards Bealville.

The city lights of Bakersfield highlight the horizon, while the headlight of a northbound train illuminates the hillsides on a moonless night.

The MWCRV rolls towards Edison minutes before sunset on a warm dusty afternoon.

BNSF ES44C4 6643 drifts down the Mojave Sub with a westbound double stack train. The train is crossing the Tehachapi creek at Rowen with NS standard cab Dash 9 40C #8883 trailing the consist.

UP 1983 again on the move, crusies passed MP 358 just up from the Cable X-overs. The 1983 is only a few short miles away from Tehachapi Summit.

After holding at Rowen to allow for some distance between it and the train in front the 1983 was moved up to Woodford to meet the ILBOA.

The Western Pacific heritage ACe glides out of Bealville with hazmat safety bulkhead flat SSW 87679 and Central California Traction bay window caboose #100.

UP 1983 leads a Hazmat safety special out of Caliente and passed MP 336. The bulkhead flat has mock-ups of three types of tank car doms, the bulkhead is an old SSW car. Bringing up the markers on ... (more)

UP 5422 teams with a pair of SD70Ms to drag the QRVWCB up the western slope of the Tehachapi's. The train is throttling up as they prepare to swing their train up the Caliente horseshoe towards Be... (more)

UP 5422 lifts the QRVWCB out of Bakersfield and up the western slope of the Tehachapi pass. The train will soon begin a slight down hill grade into Bena, where a tough uphill grade will begin, one... (more)