Big MAC Attack! Two 6000 Horsepower SD90MAC-H locomotives drag a lumber laden manifest upgrade at Bealville.

A new BNSF C44-9w climbs out of Caliente with a southbound high-tonnage freight. There is also a northbound intermodal leaving Caliente on the left of the picture....

A southbound grain empty climbs the 2.1% slope at Tunnel 2 in the Tehachapi Mountains. Large amounts of grain is unloaded in the Central Valley of California for feed-lots and food producers...

Two new Tier IV BNSF GE locomotives move a northbound manifest up the 2.1% grade at Tunnel 2 . 2016 was a fantastically green year in the Tehachapi Mountains.

Three GE motors drift downgrade through the Caliente Creek Narrows after battling the tough grades of the Tehachapi Pass as they travel north to Lathrop.

Union Pacific looking glorious in the morning light.

Late in the afternoon on Tehachapi BNSF's M MODBAR1 24A enters tunnel number two. The first cut of boxcars is all wine loads from Modesto for Barstow. Due to the ongoing and devastating drought, t... (more)

A new Tier 4 heavy General Electric locomotive leads a long high tonnage lumber laden manifest up the 2.1% grade at Tunnel Two. This short tunnel is near Caliente, CA on the twisting climb to Teha... (more)

Grinding up the steep western grade in the Tehachapi Mountains, an eastbound BNSF steel coil train exits Tunnel 1 between Caliente and Bealville, California, on February 27, 2016.

A southbound Union Pacific manifest freight curves out of Tunnel 1 above Caliente, California, while climbing Tehachapi Pass after winter rains have greened up the mountains nicely on February 27,... (more)