South bound BNSF manifest climbs the Tehachapi Loop during a break in a storm.

UP's IBRLC works towards the approach to the Tehachapi Loop at Walong.

BNSF 752 leads a southbound intermodal train through Tehachapi loop an into the single track segment between Walong and Marcel that has since been double-tracked.

BNSF 8114 exits Tunnel 9 at the base of the Tehachapi Loop as it leads a hefty Modesto, CA - Barstow, CA manifest upgrade.

Having traversed the Tehachapi Loop, a westbound Santa Fe train continues toward Bakersfield, California at Walong. A half-dozed GP30’s and GP35’s are leading the descent of the storied grade.

BNSF 6750 leads an intermodal consist around Tehachapi Loop on a May afternoon. The Heritage II scheme on the second unit was vastly better, in my opinion.

Slowly poking out of tunnel 10 and into the summer morning sun is BNSF 6765 and her extremely long south bound stack train that requires 2 more locomotives right behind 6765 and an additional 2 on... (more)

A BNSF stack train heads south up the Tehachapi Mountains, and around the loop, under a cloud covered winter sky.

Three Southern Pacific GP9 helpers in Black Widow paint scheme at Walong, California in March 1961. Photo from my slide collection, photographer Robert C. Madsen.

Nearing Walong and the Tehachapi Loop, NS 8130 leads a half stack/vehicle train on the approach to tunnel 9.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe train M-MODSEL1-09 wraps over itself as it circumnavigates the famed Tehachapi Loop behind a pair of BNSF Dash 9-44CWs – 4153 and 5523 – CSXT Dash 8-40CW 7669 and ... (more)

Nearing the Tehachapi Loop at Walong, CP 7054 is about to enter tunnel 9 as it continues the climb to the Summit.

An eastbound Santa Fe freight circumnavigates the famed Tehachapi Loop as it climbs out of California’s San Joaquin Valley and up into the Mojave Desert. ATSF U36C 8716 leads this train, follow... (more)

High In The High Desert. Union Pacific Railroad 2662 (ET44AH) leads a manifest train of mixed freight around Techachapi Loop in Walong near Keene, California on Thursday, July 23, 2020. Thi... (more)