Following closely behind a crawling BNSF stack train, exiting tunnel 5 to the right, is another BNSF intermodal moments from entering tunnel 2 on this stormy afternoon in the Tehachapi's.

Under a misty sky, a southbound UP auto rack train breaks the silence as it sounds for the crossing in Bealville on a late winter afternoon.

13 minutes of a meet at the Tehachapi Loop.

Early morning sun lights the hills of the western Tehachapi's while trains continue to navigate up and down the ridges. A UP manifest bound for Roseville, CA's J.R. Davis classification yard, poke... (more)

Not far from the summit at Tehachapi, a BNSF unit grainer climbing southbound, meets a northbound BNSF Z with stacks and TOFC drifting downhill.

A BNSF grainer rolls around the horseshoe curve at Caliente and is about tackle the 2% grade to the summit at Tehachapi.

Ducking under Hwy 58, a BNSF unit Grainer winds out of Keene and into Woodford.

Servicing the Harsco Rail Renewal Train after a days work. The train can replace crossties and both rails at the same time.

A Norfolk Southern engine Pushes on the rear of a southbound BNSF Double Stack going up the western slope of the Tehachapi Mountains through the Woodford Block.

Amidst a fresh dusting of snow an eastbound BNSF vehicle train circles over itself on the famed Loop at Walong. This engineering marvel, carved into existence in 1876 under the direction of Southe... (more)

Union Pacific AC4400CW No.5918 and SD70AH No.8908 lift Stacks up the western slope of the Tehachapi Mountains.

With the upper reaches of Tehachapi's western slope blanketed in a yet undisturbed dusting of snow the labored roar of eastbound tonnage, battling up the mountain, reverberates through the quiet w... (more)

A westbound empty rail train slithers through the curves above Warren on the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade, just as the railroad enters Cache Creek Canyon. For the next five miles the railr... (more)

With the rolling hills of Tehachapi's western slope radiant in the colors of Spring an eastbound lumber heavy Roseville to West Colton manifest approaches Caliente. Having just emerged from the co... (more)

In 1899 facing the threat of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway completing their own link between northern and southern California via the Tehachapi range the Southern Pacific Railroad neg... (more)