The grassy hills around Bealville on California’s Tehachapi Pass are an emerald green on February 24, 2016, as an Union Pacific manifest freight climbs past maintenance-of-way working in the si... (more)

A pair of BNSF GEs lead a southbound intermodal train as it climbs Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, CA on a beautiful spring day.

A westbound BNSF intermodal train negotiates the Allard horseshoe curve at Bealville, California, while crossing Tehachapi Pass on March 1, 2016.

Three new Union Pacific GE ET44AC (ET44AH) locomotives snake a train through multiple curves and up a steep grade below the Allard horseshoe curve at Bealville, California, on March 1, 2016. Heavy... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight ascends the grade through Bealville, California, on a very spring-like February 26, 2016. General Electric ES44AC No. 7983 leads two new ET44ACs (UP lab... (more)

This Westbound BNSF train is seen heading towards the west switch at Bealville with the rear of the train about to go through the horseshoe curve at Allard.

With a pair of leased NW units along to help a westbound Santa Fe train was descending the Tehachapi Mountains near Bealville, CA

Three new Union Pacific GE ET44AC (ET44AH) locomotives growl up the steep grade of Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, California, on March 1, 2016, with an eastbound manifest freight. The large train do... (more)

On Tehachapi Pass, covered in beautiful spring green grass, an eastbound BNSF intermodal train climbs the 2.1 percent grade through the Allard Horseshoe curve at Bealville, California, on February... (more)

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A westbound BNSF grain train holding the main line at Bealville, California, meets an eastbound BNSF intermodal train on February 25, 2016. The two DPU locom... (more)

Rumbling out of the east portal of Tunnel 2 at Bealville, California, is an eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight on the stiff 2.1 percent grade through here on the climb over Tehachapi Pass on... (more)

Even though the calendar still says winter, it’s springtime in California! Oak trees are beginning leaf out on the verdant mountains and wildflowers are erupting along the grassy hillsides, as a... (more)

It’s 6:51 a.m. on February 27, 2016, at Bealville, California. The grass is still wet with dew and the sun is having no luck shining through or burning off the thick morning clouds. Silence is d... (more)

Brand-new BNSF GE ES44C4 No. 4258 leads a westbound vehicle train at Bealville, California, late in the afternoon of February 24, 2016. The train just met an eastbound BNSF vehicle train that can ... (more)