BNSF 3751 and 5 other units climb up Cajon Pass on Main 1 at Blue Cut with a manifest freight.

It looks like a race up Cajon Pass but it is actually east bound BNSF 7914 crawling up Cajon Pass in Sullivan's Curve just as the rear helpers of another west bound double-stack align themselves i... (more)

A downhill or west bound Union Pacific double-stack is on Main 2 in the "S" curve just after Hill 582 and just before the former location for tunnel #1. For this picture I am standing at the edge... (more)

This BNSF manifest is on Main 2 at the former location of tunnel #2. The large amount of earth required to be moved to daylight the tunnel is evident by the dramatic cut in the mountainside. Not... (more)

Another in the seemingly endless parade of double-stack trains on the BNSF "Transcon" exits Barstow Yard and enters the Needles Subdivision. The train blocks the view of the Barstow depot where t... (more)

A long BNSF double-stack climbs its way uphill at Walong in Tehachapi Pass. For this angle, I climbed about 150 feet up the steep incline of the hill across from the Loop Monuments on the Woodfor... (more)

Union Pacific 844 has been restored and painted back to its original paint scheme while it enjoys its retirement working leisure weekends on the Nevada Southern Railway, a short tourist line runni... (more)

This east bound manifest train demonstrates two things unique to this portion of the "Transcon". One is the way the trains appear to climb out of the Seligman valley and the other is that at this... (more)

Between Eagles Nest and Double A on the Crookton Cutoff I caught this west bound BNSF manifest.

Several different units from a couple of different railroads await their assignments near one of the towers in Argentine Yard. This is not the engine facility so I guess that the units for the BN... (more)

Here is an east bound BNSF double-stack working uphill through the heart of Crozier Canyon.

A south bound BNSF freight works hard to climb the grade between tunnel 1 and tunnel 2. This angle is from the top of the mountain across from the top of tunnel 2. Tunnel 1 is in the background ... (more)

Here is a unit train of wind mill blades for more of the wind farms that line the mountainsides near Tehachapi, CA. Each pair of blades is loaded on a 5-unit spine car with a special mounting on ... (more)

A north bound BNSF double-stack crosses what I call the "Bena Bridge" (does it have an official name?) as it finishes it's desent down Tehachapi Pass. The rear of this train is still in the old I... (more)

A north bound BNSF hotshot rolls past the "S" curve at Sandcut after finishing it's long desent down the Tehachapi Pass. Bakersfield is it's next major town and it is almost straight running with... (more)