With vibrant green hills and carpets of wildflowers providing the backdrop at Bealville on February 19th, 2016 a eastbound BNSF Z train works up the Tehachapi grade. Within moments the lead motor ... (more)
Emerging from the deep cut where Tunnel Half once stood one of Union Pacific's rail detector cars, EC-4, is led up the Tehachapi grade towards Caliente.
On a cold, breezy morning in the Tehachapi's, a few minutes before sunrise, a short UP manifest tackles the grade at Keene and is rounding the horseshoe curve.