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 manifest climbs its way up and out of tunnel 2 and through the curves of the north end of Bealville siding in the early afternoon hours of a spring day.

The golden Tehachapi hills succumb to the epic rumble of a south bound auto rack train snaking its way through the curves in the Allard area.

Three brand new UP Tier 4’s and a Dash 9 bring their north bound manifest down the lower Tehachapi foothills and out of the Allard horseshoe in the early hours of a warm summer day. Evidence of a ... (more)

An earth worm, disguised as a BNSF train, drifts by a stopped baretable train and down through the curves west of Bealville, entering the Allard horseshoe.

UP manifest climbing the emerald hills of the Tehachapi foothills around Allard in late afternoon light.

A BNSF manifest quickly rolls north and through the cut west of Bealville, while an auto rack train holds in the siding for the manifest to clear. A storm hovers over the mountain that would dump ... (more)

As the thick morning fog continues to linger longer into the day above the San Joaquin Valley, countless south bounds would appear from the hazy depths below on their climb for the high desert and... (more)

Thundering echoes of a UP stack train, charging up the Tehachapi grade, bounce off the walls of the deep cut below the Tehachapi loop, like a funnel, as the south bound rounds the curve and into v... (more)

A south bound BNSF intermodal wraps around the horseshoe curve west of Bealville in the early afternoon light of a perfect February 2017 day.

A UP auto rack train blasts out of tunnel 5, above Bealville, in the very last light of a beautiful winter's afternoon.

It's all business for this BNSF stack train working south, as 3 GE locomotives, facing elephant style, charge quickly up grade through Bealville under a drama filled sky. It's mid December and the... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal twists it’s way through the emerald hillsides around the Caliente area on a beautiful spring day. It’s unbelievable to see the UP right of way from up here, twisting ... (more)

With the winter and spring months of 2016 being extremely green on Tehachapi, it meant that the summer wild grasses of 2016 would be both extremely golden and very tall as well. In spots, it was e... (more)

As fog dances in and out of the Tehachapi hills around tunnel 2, a BNSF grain train climbs south right through the fog. I’ve tried to capture images that have originality to them with using differ... (more)