Viewed from the hillside above Tunnel 3, a westbound Santa Fe train approaches Tunnel 5 as it rolls along the high shelf at Cliff.

A westbound Santa Fe train holds at Cliff to meet an eastbound Southern Pacific train. While the Santa Fe trains climbed the grade without much visual fanfare, the SP locos were often smoke-belchi... (more)

Another Crummy Shot From Tehachapi

Or, more correctly, another waycar shot from Tehachapi. After shooting an e... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Amercian Freedom Train with SP 4449 and three Cotton Belt SD40-2T tunnel motors climb the Techachapi grade at Cliff, Calif. on an overcast Dec. 22, 1975 en route to display at Long Beach.

A Barstow to Richmond manifest passes through one of the lesser photographed areas of Tehachapi Pass at Cliff.

UP symbol ILBSE passes through Cliff as it heads north over Tehachapi Pass.

An eastbound Union Pacific freight climbs upgrade between Bealville and Cliff, California, on March 11, 2002. The locomotives are about to enter Tunnel 5, while the rear of the train is exiting Tu... (more)

Nearing the entrance to tunnel 5 at Cliff, BNSF 4605 leads a colorful southbound up Tehachapi Pass.

Here we see GE B40-8W 522 leading 4 screaming EMD GP60M's as they roar out of tunnel 5 at Cliff

BNSF 8057 South exits tunnel 5 at Cliff where it will meet a unit steel train lead by KCS 4807 and a UP hotshot.

SP baywindow caboose 1881 tags on the rear of an extra east climbing Tehachapi grade at Cliff March 29, 1975 when California state's Poppy flower was in bloom.

A rare BNSF, UP, CN consist is on a Stokton, CA to Willow Springs, IL intermodel train charges out of Tunnel 5 at Cliff as the Canadian National SD70M-2 puffs out a lot of smoke.

An SP eastbound roars through the deep cut where tunnel 6 once was as a westbound Santa Fe pig train recedes in the distance. The photographer is in the midst of a race with an eastbound SP 10,000... (more)

5 GP35's and a GP20 negotiate the curves between switches at Cliff siding as they work uphill with a mixed manifest train.