A BNSF manifest quickly rolls north and through the cut west of Bealville, while an auto rack train holds in the siding for the manifest to clear. A storm hovers over the mountain that would dump ... (more)

As the thick morning fog continues to linger longer into the day above the San Joaquin Valley, countless south bounds would appear from the hazy depths below on their climb for the high desert and... (more)

Thundering echoes of a UP stack train, charging up the Tehachapi grade, bounce off the walls of the deep cut below the Tehachapi loop, like a funnel, as the south bound rounds the curve and into v... (more)

A south bound BNSF intermodal wraps around the horseshoe curve west of Bealville in the early afternoon light of a perfect February 2017 day.

A UP auto rack train blasts out of tunnel 5, above Bealville, in the very last light of a beautiful winter's afternoon.

It's all business for this BNSF stack train working south, as 3 GE locomotives, facing elephant style, charge quickly up grade through Bealville under a drama filled sky. It's mid December and the... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal twists it’s way through the emerald hillsides around the Caliente area on a beautiful spring day. It’s unbelievable to see the UP right of way from up here, twist... (more)

With the winter and spring months of 2016 being extremely green on Tehachapi, it meant that the summer wild grasses of 2016 would be both extremely golden and very tall as well. In spots, it was e... (more)

As fog dances in and out of the Tehachapi hills around tunnel 2, a BNSF grain train climbs south right through the fog. I’ve tried to capture images that have originality to them with using diff... (more)

Cable’s twisting curves are lit by a southbound BNSF grain train’s headlights as it climbs the grueling Tehachapi grade, only a few miles from the mountain’s summit in eastern Tehachapi, CA.... (more)

A north bound UP intermodal rolls into Bealville and is set to meet a south bound UP auto rack train under some low hanging storm clouds on a late afternoon in winter.

In soft, late afternoon light on a stormy winter’s day, a north bound UP intermodal pops out from behind the hill at the old site of tunnel 6 and catches the day’s last rays of sunlight at Cli... (more)

DPUs on a south bound UP manifest continue to push with all their might up through the Caliente Canyon, by a north bound UP manifest, and into the town of Caliente on a perfect spring afternoon.

A north bound BNSF manifest is seen here slowly rolling underway again around the Tehachapi loop, after holding at the north end of the siding, in a moon lit scene at about midnight. The light fro... (more)

A BNSF intermodal descends the lower Tehachapi foothills in perfect spring conditions.