It's difficult to not get identical looking scenes all through the higher Sierras with such a high amount of pine trees all around the UP main lines. Here an eastbound empty grainer climbs the num... (more)

Amtrak 5 approaches Tunnel 18 on a late afternoon in early autumn.

Descending the grade at Emigrant Gap on a freshly fallen snow morning and approaching the start of double track for the rest of the trip down into Roseville.

BNSF DPUs help bring their manifest slowly down the Tehachapi's in the mid morning of a spring day.

A UP intermodal from the shipping port of Brooklyn, Oregon curves it's way up through Allard and into the horseshoe in the very early moments of sunlight on this perfect spring morning.

A northbound BNSF intermodal glides into Caliente, CA.

The natural light from the starry sky lights up the iconic landmark in Californian railroading. A BNSF northbound is seen painting out the right of way while descending down the mountain and the T... (more)

A BNSF stack train curves it's way north through Allard and down the Tehachapi Mountains on this wet spring afternoon.

BNSF auto racks climb south up the Tehachapi's in the darkness of cloud shadows.

A BNSF stack train exits tunnel 10, on a summer morning a few years back when the construction of the double tracking was in progress around tunnel 10 above the Tehachapi Loop.

Amtrak #6 rounds the curve in Alta, CA on a warm summer afternoon.

Early afternoon Amtrak #6, the California Zephyr, climbs the grade between Penryn, CA and Newcastle, CA on the number 2 track on a perfect winter day.

Rounding the reverse curve in Alta and throttling back up on the grade after receiving a clear signal is Amtrak #6 on a cold afternoon in the Sierras. The snow is beginning to melt and the red cla... (more)

Climbing the number 2 track up the Sierra Nevada foothills, on a warm summer morning, tunnel threading between 15 and 16. The Sierra Nevada foothills to me are like paradise on earth for a rail ph... (more)

Led by red and silver, this BNSF intermodal drifts down grade through Tehachapi's tunnel district, where tunnels 17, 16, 15 and 14 lie.