Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8300 leads an eastbound freight past the depot in Tehachapi, California – at milepost 360.5, just 1.9 miles from the summit of the SP’s crossing of the Tehachapi Mount... (more)

BNSF No.5526 pulls the Tehachapi Summit with it's string of Auto Racks. The snow is melting away rapidly in these lower latitudes. Fun while it lasts.

Reaching the Snow Level as it approaches Tehachapi, Union Pacific No.7493 pulls a manifest up through Cable Block.

Eastbound BNSF No. 7954 lifts a stack up the west slope of the Tehachapi Mountains through Cable to the Summit in Tehachapi. A dusting of snow has fallen overnight on the Union Pacific Mojave Sub.

Eastbound Union Pacific No. 7926 pulls Auto Racks up the west slope of the Tehachapi Mountains through tunnel 10 to the Summit in Tehachapi. A dusting of snow has fallen overnight on the Union Pac... (more)

BNSF No.5526 pulls Auto Racks eastbound up the west slope of the Tehachapi Mountains to the Summit in Tehachapi. A dusting of snow has fallen overnight on the Union Pacific Mojave Sub.

BNSF No.7542 with a westbound Grainer rolls through Monolith in Tehachapi after an overnight dusting of snow on the Union Pacific Mojave Sub.

A new UP rebuild leads this southbound MPWWC thru Tehachapi on a cold and windy morning.

SP SD45T-2 9340, SP SD45T-2R 6821, SSW SD45T-2 9287, ex Milw.Rd SD40-2 142 and SSW SD45T-2 9375 heading north near the Town of Tehachapi, California.

A BNSF freight train makes its way round the Tehachapi Loop. I'm told the smokey haze in the background was from wild fires. *drone pic

BNSF 3981 and BNSF 4201 highballing through Summit, CA

SP 8236 and SP 8249 are part of five units up front as they thunder past with the eastbound Southern Pacific Oil Can train. In the distance, a Santa Fe intermodal is approaching. By the time the ... (more)

SP 8311 leads a westbound train around the famous Tehachapi Loop.

As a Santa Fe intermodal train races west on the main line, the helper set, led by Cotton Belt 9355, slowly heads west down the helper spur. On the middle track is SP 9355, which is starting to p... (more)

The hills on Tehachapi are very dry as SP 6817 roars uphill in run 8 at Woodford. Soon the train will be crawling around the famous Tehachapi Loop.