After about a 9 hour MOW work window in the morning, to replace tie plates from Caliente up to tunnel 2, traffic was back underway once again at about 230pm. With such long work windows rail traff... (more)

Cable’s twisting curves are lit by a southbound BNSF intermodal’s headlights as it climbs the grueling Tehachapi grade, only a few miles from the mountain’s summit in eastern Tehachapi, CA.

Moon light helps illuminate the stretch of track between tunnels 7 and 8, known as Cliff. The headlight path of a hard working BNSF southbound, popping out of tunnel 7 and then disappearing into ... (more)

On a cool spring Tehachapi night, under the near full moon, the motion blur of a south bound BNSF intermodal moves along through the curves and up the grade between tunnels 1 and 2. The light of a... (more)

The faint glow, from the cloud covered sun setting in the west, hits the side of a short UP cement train climbing the last few miles of the eastern Tehachapi slope here at Monolith, right passed t... (more)

A north bound UP intermodal drops down and around Allard's horseshoe curve in the late afternoon light of a perfect spring day.

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)

Amongst the color and vegetation of spring, a southbound UP manifest pops out of tunnel 2, at the north end of Bealville siding on this cloudy afternoon.

While a southbound BNSF intermodal holds at Bena off in the distance, a UP northbound intermodal races toward a diverging clear signal and the San Joaquin Valley, catching the late afternoon light... (more)

Light from the rear DPU of a southbound train creates a trail that moves along with the curves through Allard. Moon light helps illuminate the hills around the scene on this cool spring night.

A BNSF stack train rounds the curve, where tunnel 1/2 once was, on this hot spring afternoon.

Late afternoon light catches this short UP northbound climbing the eastern slope of the Tehachapi's at Monolith on a cold 30 degree day. A cloud shadow from a parting sky darkens the hill side in ... (more)

No that is no ocean off in the distance but it is a sea of dense fog hovering over the San Joaquin Valley on this perfect winter morning in the upper elevations of the Tehachapi Mountains. Wrappin... (more)

The end of a hot, steamy summer afternoon draws near as this long south bound BNSF intermodal quickly approaches it's first Tehachapi curve, at Sandcut, on the journey over the mountain to Mojave,... (more)

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)