Under some extreme haze in the western Tehachapi's, a south bound BNSF intermodal wraps itself around Caliente's horseshoe curve in the mid-morning hours of a winter's day.

Clinging to the side of Cliff, the slow progress of a West Colton bound manifest can be seen climbing the grade of Tehachapi in the very early hours of a perfect spring morning. The UP train on th... (more)

Amtrak #5 is drifting west down the ridge line at Emigrant Gap, beside interstate 80, toward Sacramento, CA. The clouds above scatter across the eastern skies and over the Tahoe National Forest of... (more)

On an extremely hot, triple digit afternoon in the Tehachapi's, a squeaky clean Tier 4 loops it's south bound BNSF intermodal around the horseshoe curve below the Tehachapi Loop, swinging back tow... (more)

The calm after the storm, of a south bound BNSF grain train climbing up the west slope of the Tehachapi's, is in the hissing form of a flashing rear end device slowly curving a trail up the curves... (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.

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)