An Eastbound stack train meets the morning light as it accelerates out of the siding.

Passing maintenance-of-way forces in the siding, an eastbound BNSF intermodal train climbs the grade up toward Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, California, on February 24, 2016. Leading the train towa... (more)

Battling upgrade out of Beaville, BNSF 8251 leads a southbound grain train out of Tunnel 3 and past the long-abandoned Tunnel 4 as it works its way toward Cliff and Tunnel 5. Drones have not opene... (more)

A long Roseville to West Colton manifest works through Bealville in the late morning.

On March 14, 2005, an eastbound BNSF freight climbs through Bealville, California, on the trip over Tehachapi Pass. The train is led by new GE ES44DC No. 7667, one of a handful of BNSF GEVOs in He... (more)

Two BNSF GEs shove on the rear of a southbound freight train as it climbs Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, CA just after sunrise on a beautiful spring morning.

Sunny day at Bealville as a very long Union Pacific train heads down the hill, it can be seen in tunnels 3 and 5 and around the corner.

A Union Pacific freight passes through tunnel 5 and 3 at Bealville, while the sun pokes through a break in the clouds.

Eastbound BNSF climbs the hill at Allard, the tail end can be seen on the distance quite a bit lower.

BNSF 9286 brings up the rear of a Southbound oil train at Bealville.

With word now official (Feb. 2017) that rolling stock from both the red and blue units of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus trains will soon be auctioned off, a look back through th... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

With a smoking SD45T-2 in the lead, an SP stack train bursts out of tunnel #5 in the Tehachapi mountains.

Westbound Barstow, CA to Bakersfield, CA manifest descending Tehachapi's on UP exSP Mojave Sub emerging from tunnel five near Bealville.

A westbound BNSF vehicle train twists though the multiple curves below Allard at Bealville, California, on the afternoon of February 23, 2016.