The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak SDP40F 518 and Amtrak 517, is rolling westbound towards Bakersfield through Cable, when suddenly Cotton Belt 9295 ... (more)

After a morning of dark and thick fog from cold temperatures and nearly a week of rain, the sun finally pushes through with low clouds and fog still hovering just west of Cable. Here, a Grain trai... (more)

A ballast train sitting in the Tehachapi Siding (3rd track siding) in the golden glint of last light.

After holding for a meet at Bealville, BNSF No. 6851 gets it's tonnage of perishables and stacks moving up the grade through tunnel 5. Exhaust pours from the tunnel with the effort.

A view of the Tehachapi Loop from the northside. The end of the southbound Union Pacific Mixed Manifest is still coming up from Woodford and the headend is pulling up and around the top of the Loo... (more)

Under a Full Moon, and the last rays of sunlight, northbound BNSF No. 4554 with a mixed manifest.pulls to a stop at Summit Siding in Tehachapi.

Early morning fog hangs over the western slope of the Tehachapi Mountains. Southbound BNSF No. 3740, pulls Stacks and TOFC uphill to the summit at Tehachapi.

Northbound Coast Starlight train 14 makes a rare appearance passing the Tehachapi Depot in downtown Tehachapi. Due to MOW work on its regular route along the Pacific coast, the Coast Starlight was... (more)

Eastbound Santa Fe 5124 has stopped in order to cut out its helpers, which can be seen in the distance. Soon this intermodal train will be racing down the hill towards Mojave.

A southbound UP manifest skirts along the side of a northbound stack train as it makes its way through Tehachapi Pass.

An SP meets the competition at Tehachapi. When I lived in Southern California I made as many trip as I could to Tehachapi and when I moved to CO every trip home involved a trip to Tehachapi as it ... (more)

A First for Me. Out of all the times I've visited Tehachapi, this afternoon marked the first I've ever seen the small industry just west of the 4,064-foot summit be served by the Union Paci... (more)