A BNSF stack train climbs south through the curves just west of Bealville in the mid morning light of a warm summer day.

In the sizzle heat of summer down the San Joaquin Valley, a job on UP rails, by the SJVR, finds this southbound grainer approaching the Avenue 7 overpass on their way to the UP yard just a few mil... (more)

Sitting nearly at the base of the Tehachapi grade, Caliente in its heyday was a busy spot on the railroad, today what's left is only a few houses and a general post office. The once 4 tracks that ... (more)

A south bound BNSF intermodal, with a Ferromex unit second out in it’s consist, thunders out of the rock covered tunnel 7 in the Tehachapi’s, while under a cloud covered sky moments from down ... (more)

During many attempts to capture the Milky way over the Tehachapi Loop this past summer, I came away with numerous images like this. A meet is taking place with a northbound slowing to a stop on th... (more)

Under a cloudy winter sky, BNSF 5326 leads her manifest down the western slope of the Tehachapi's, between tunnels 1 and 2 and is moments from entering tunnel 1. Fall color still lingers in the Oa... (more)

Spring finally arrived in the Tehachapi foothills with big fluffy white clouds drifting through the sky, casting shadows on the green landscape. The DPU of a south bound UP intermodal slowly pushe... (more)

A short BNSF manifest descending the Tehachapi's, between tunnels 1 & 2, while the San Joaquin Valley can be seen off in the distance.

Lost within a scene of vast color and hovering cloud cover, a northbound BNSF manifest drifts down and out of the Allard horseshoe and is approaching tunnel 2, under what seems like a display of a... (more)

Early afternoon Amtrak #6, the California Zephyr, climbs the grade between Penryn, CA and Newcastle, CA on the number 2 track on a perfect winter day.

Early morning sun lights the hills of the western Tehachapi's while trains continue to navigate up and down the ridges. A UP manifest bound for Roseville, CA's J.R. Davis classification yard, poke... (more)

The DPUs on the rear of a UP Roseville, CA bound manifest glint in the late evening sun, as the train passes by tunnel 10, to the left, and then enters the Tehachapi Loop. The same train is seen j... (more)

A winter storm parts for the afternoon sun that lights up the Lehigh cement factory at Monolith and a passing south bound BNSF intermodal rolling quickly by at track speed.

Echoing GE locomotives, from a very long BNSF stack train, roar through the green hills of Tehachapi climbing the grade in early morning light, above the Tehachapi loop at Marcel. The upper elevat... (more)

On a late spring afternoon in the Tehachapi's, 7 big GE locomotives of the BNSF drag a long intermodal up through Keene, CA and around the single track horseshoe curve.