Echoes begin to build as another train rumbles its way up the steep Tehachapi grade and into tunnel 5 above Bealville, CA. The headlights have just curved around the mid tunnel curve and pointed n... (more)

BNSF 7919 and four sister General Electric locomotives, with assistance from a visiting Norfolk Southern SD70ACe, work upgrade out of Tunnel 5 and into Cliff with a heavy steel coil train.

An Oregon-bound drag of lumber empties descends the grade out of the Tehachapi Mountains at Cliff siding on a hot July 1988 afternoon.

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)

UP 6966 shoves on the rear of a southbound manifest as it enters Tunnel #5 at Cliff.

UP 6275 leads a southbound MRVLB between tunnels 3 and 5 on the approach to Cliff.

Orejano Canyon A Union Pacific Stack Train battles the steep grade and Curves above Cliff. The train has just exited Tunnel 7 and will soon plunge into Tunnel 8. A Massive concrete retaining wall... (more)

BNSF 5425 South is exiting Tunnel No. 5 at Cliff, CA. The classic SP era searchlights are about to fall and, with them, the codelines that marched along the right of way all across the land.

Exiting tunnel 5 at the north end of Cliff siding, CP 7054 leads this Fresno to West Colton extra in the late afternoon as it heads for Tehachapi Summit.

Snaking through the southern end of Cliff, UP 6524 brings up the rear of a northbound manifest as it passes a waiting BNSF intermodal train on one side and the remains of a recent derailment on th... (more)

Coyotes howl throughout the hills around the secluded railroad location of Cliff, while the quiet chirp of crickets is silenced by the approaching horn of a BNSF manifest. Moments later, the roar ... (more)

UP 8803 lugs a hefty manifest up through Cliff and into a small patch of sunlight as a passing storm system blankets most of the surrounding hillsides across Tehachapi.

There's something about a spring morning on Tehachapi that just has that "right" feeling. Such was the case as the sun crept above a row of clouds and spilled onto the length of this sou... (more)

A Worm With An Identity Crises. UP 5288 leads a 13,000-ton, loaded grain train carefully down Clear Creek Ravine and past the long abandoned Tunnel 4 on the 5,900-foot long train's decent t... (more)

With it's mid-train, "swing helpers" having just ducked into the darkness of Tunnel 5 in the background at Cliff, BNSF 8022 leads the headed of this snaking Fresno-bound grain train towa... (more)