As a pouring rain brings new life to Tehachapi's rolling hills, BNSF's westbound 'Super Bowl Express drifts down grade behind tier IV ET44C4 #3951. The special train is rolling across the 4th cros... (more)

18 pieces of BNSF's polished varnish trail an equally polished ET44C4 en route to Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, CA. Drifting down the western slope of the Tehachapi grade above Clear Creek Ravine ... (more)

BNSF Tier 4 No.3878 with a hot Stack and TOFC. After rounding the horseshoe curve at Caliente it begins the 2% grade of the western slope of Tehachapi Mountains.

Making its way northbound downhill into Bealville from Cliff, 7159 and mates have just cleared tunnel 3, while way up the hill the rest of the train is just entering tunnel5.

Pulling the stiff grade up the eastern slope of the Tehachapi range, Union Pacific's westbound MWCRVC enters the Cache Creek narrows, leaving behind the Mojave Desert. After crossing Cache Creek b... (more)

Switching onto the main at Bealville Siding is a southbound stack. Ahead is Cliff Block where the replacement and extension of the double track is taking place, with the associated congestion and ... (more)

Climbing southbound in a park like setting, a BNSF Tier 4 teams with CSX 648 AC60CW to lift a repositioning move of Bare Tables up the west slope of Tehachapi Pass.

As the morning sun peaks above the horizon, casting the first rays of the day on the sleepy hamlet of Mojave, BNSF 4030 drops into town trailed by a eastbound 'baretable'.

The sound of howling brakes and screaming flanges reverberate off the hills that ring Clear Creek Ravine as UP 8159 carefully drops down grade into Bealville. In moments 8159 will enter the east p... (more)

Heavily laden with lumber products from the Pacific Northwest, UP's eastbound QRVWCB ascends the Tehachapi grade while conforming to the Bealville horseshoe curve. Brand new UP ET45AH 2662 is bein... (more)

Climbing out of the Mojave Desert and into the Tehachapi's two new ET45AHs, UP 2571 and 2584, bookend a pair of 8000s as the MWCRVB climbs the grade at Warren. Soon the Mojave Subdivision will cro... (more)

Emerging from the confines of the Cache Creek narrows UP's eastbound QRVWC carefully slips down the eastern slope of the Tehachapi grade. On the point are three new Union Pacific 2600 series (2610... (more)

Lingering storm clouds lay atop the Tehachapi range as a trio of new Union Pacific ET45AHs hold back eastbound tonnage as it leaves the mountains for the crossing of the vast Mojave Desert.

With the Tehachapi's locked in under a thick layer of cloud cover 19 copies of Union Pacific's first class varnish emerge into the warm afternoon sunlight at Warren, located on the eastern slope o... (more)

'Just a common sense plan' was how William Hood, civil engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, described the engineering landmark that we all know today as the Tehachapi Loop. It was under the... (more)