A cantilever signal bridge indicates all red, after the passing of a BNSF intermodal train, as Tehachapi's 4th of July fireworks show lights the night sky.
A Union Pacific Officer's Special bound for Las Vegas, emerges from Tunnel 10, just south of the siding at Walong.
On a clear desert night BNSF 4684 North passes under the signal bridge at MP 377, shortly after beginning its climb up the eastern slope of the Tehachapi Mountains at Mojave.
The first snowfall of the year for the Tehachapi Pass blankets the ground, as BNSF's Z-STOWSP works upgrade between Cable and Tehachapi.
A unit cement train led by a new C45ACCTE rolls to a stop at Cable X-Over, as it waits for a southbound manifest and the circus train to pass.
A Union Pacific stack train follows the Mojave River, as it rolls through the colorful confines of Afton Canyon.
With the town of Tehachapi in the distance, nine units total are in control of a loaded unit grain train, as it begins its descent toward Bakersfield, shortly after having crested the summit sever... (more)
BNSF 8234 South begins the arduous climb up the Tehachapi Mountains, as it passes through Bena during the day's last light.
Union Pacific's Rio Grande heritage unit leads the MWCFR, as it swings into tunnel #2 at the north end of Bealville.
SD45-2 #5800 leads an eastbound manifest between Tunnel 7 and 8 just west of Rowen.
Ex. Apalachicola Northern SW9 #711 switches cars for its current owner Progress Rail Services, at the Mojave Airport.
A unit coal train bound for Wasco, CA works up the #2 track as it rounds the big curve at Warren.
An aging C40-8W leads a BNSF manifest up the 2.1% grade as it approaches Tunnel #2 in the warm evening light of springtime.
A stockton bound stack train has almost completed its climb up to the summit at Tehachapi, as it hustles across the valley approaching Monolith. The rear end of the high priority Z-NBYWSP can sti... (more)
UP 1989 leads the MWCFR, as it crests the summit at Tehachapi after a slow climb up the east side of the Tehachapi Mountains.