With a stroke of luck with a hole in the clouds, UP 9031 drops down through Bealville under challenging light conditions.

UP 5571 leads an early afternoon Z train up Tehachapi Pass.

An eastbound manifest train rounds the Tehachapi Loop, lead by ATSF 851.

UP 5830 drops downgrade through Bealville. The rear unit is an unpatched DRGW GP40-2.

Two rebuilt SD45s shove hard on the rear of an eastbound lumber drag at Woodford.

ATSF 698 leads an eastbound on the approach to Walong. Unpatched ATSF units were getting quite rare by the time this photo was taken.

SP 7540 emerges from Tunnel 3, between Bealville and Cliff with a cloud of soot rich smoke following close behind.

SP 9742 leads the Swift RoadRailer train at Mojave.

BNSF 6522 heads up the "North Bay" on it's journey up Tehachapi Pass.

CNW 8702 leads an eastbound UP freight as it thunders out of Caliente.

An eastbound manifest, led by two SD40-2's grinds upgrade approaching Walong.

An empty Wasco coal train walks upgrade through the siding at Bealville.

A set of early BNSF power leads an eastbound intermodal train upgrade through Bealville.

Yet to be patched CNW 8651 rests in the hole at Seacliff on the former Southern Pacific Coast line on a typical "June Gloom" day.

Fresh out of the day's college classes and unaware of the American Orient Express' trip from Los Angeles to Seattle, I swung by the Depot at Santa Barbara to take advantage of the nice afternoon l... (more)