An eastbound Santa Fe pig train drops down through the defile between the Tehachapi Valley at the top of the pass and the Mojave Desert.

As the sun drops behind the hills to the west, Santa Fe SD40-2 5101 heads west toward Los Angeles with an SD45 and C30-7 assisting. The train is seen here passing through the Narrows in Victorvil... (more)

Santa Fe 5101 East, a long pig train headed for the Midwest, drops down through Cameron on the east side of the pass where the mountains appear to rise almost straight up from the right-of-way.