A Roger Puta Photograph
Exhibiting an “open door” policy most likely caused by overheating on a warm May day, Santa Fe SD45R 5329 leads a westbound train drifting downgrade out of Bealville.
Wine train on Tehachapi Approaching Tunnel 2 at Bealville, California, on March 27, 2001, is the so-called “wine train” led by Santa Fe C40-8W No. 855. This train is an eastbound un... (more)
Three GE motors lug this Fresno, CA to West Colton, CA manifest eastbound up the stiff grades of Tehachapi Pass.
CMA CGM stacks head towards Oakland
On February 26, 2016, a long BNSF intermodal train climbs the 2.1 percent grade at Bealville, California, and approaches the Allard horseshoe curve on Tehachapi Pass. ES44C4s Nos. 6766 and 7939 br... (more)
After sitting in Caliente for the majority of the day (caused by a failed mid-train DPU and an failure of an engine on the head end consist), UP 2535 notches up on the approach to Tunnel 2, headed... (more)
Three new UP GE ET44AC (ET44AH) locomotives power a southbound Z train at Bealville, California, on February 24, 2016. Winter rains have made the hills around Tehachapi Pass an emerald green, whic... (more)
UP SD70ACe 8829 heads south on the Mojave Sub with an LA bound Z train.
A quartet of GE's haul an eastbound train up the grade near Bealville.
Emerging from Tunnel #5 with a plume of black smoke, BNSF 7157 leads the H MODBAR onto the main at Cliff, southbound on UP's Mojave Sub.
A quartet of BNSF GE's guide a Willow Springs-North Bay (San Francisco) Z train down Tehachapi Pass. The train has just passed through Tunnel #5 and its tailend can be seen still on the south side... (more)
BNSF GEs sandwich a KCS EMD, coasting out of Tunnel #5 on UP's Mojave Sub with a Z train.
UP ES44AC 5463 is about to disappear into Tehachapi Pass' tunnel #5, shoving on the tailend of a rack train.
