With another Tehachapi summer night underway, a south bound BNSF intermodal rumbles up grade and lights the right of way through the tight confines of the cut just below the Tehachapi Loop, while ... (more)

Part II Sand Train. An hour after this train passed through Coal Creek Canyon the westbound sand train crawled past the site of former Tunnel 28 on its journey towards the Continental Divi... (more)

Part I Sand Train. A BNSF sand train climbs up and around the horseshoe curve in Coal Creek Canyon. The 2% grade is evident here as the the head-end of the train passed over the 2 DPU AC u... (more)

Lombard Canyon is on the Missouri near Tostin, MT. Lewis & Clark once camped along the banks here, perhaps in this very spot this photo was taken. Later smaller river boat steamers made it as far... (more)

The vast painted badlands of Wyoming have always amazed me. It wasn't until a few years ago that some good friends introduced me to this portion of the BNSF that runs thru some of the amazing rock... (more)

A SD70ACE 9229 leads a northbound manifest into Homes Canyon. The train is twisting thru what is supposedly the sharpest curve on a BNSF mainline along the banks of the Little Big Horn River. Wh... (more)

The dark concreted enclosure of Tehachapi’s tunnel 3 lies quiet for the majority of the time, until the faint illumination of an approaching train begins to quickly light up the right of way out... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal glints in the morning light as it exits Caliente and approaches the Caliente canyon on a perfect spring morning. Up the mountain at Cliff, a south bound UP manifest c... (more)

A set of five BNSF locos with a westbound manifest has just crossed Blue Mountain Drive and has made the turn in Coal Creek Canyon to head up the 20‰ grade to Tunnel No 1.

The motion blur of a BNSF manifest at the Cable curves in the moon light.

The sound of the Tehachapi Creek echoing through the deep, shadowy gorge below Cliff, creates a similar feeling of when standing by the Merced River in Yosemite Natural Park, while a north bound B... (more)

On a perfect spring afternoon in the lower Tehachapi foothills, a north bound BNSF auto rack train navigates down the west curves of the Caliente Canyon, along side the winding creek. The train is... (more)

The shadows of an early morning at Keene, CA continue to shrink as the sun slowly starts to illuminate the emerald landscape and a short BNSF manifest rounding the horseshoe curve in the glamour o... (more)

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

Climbing the color changing Tehachapi foothills and through the Allard area, where the train’s head end is exiting the Allard horseshoe above, while it’s rear portion still twists through the ... (more)