After a lengthy stop in the siding at Bealville for heavy Northbound traffic to clear, The SOACB is back on the move as it departs the siding as it resumes its trip over the Tehachapi's.

Before there were centerbeam bulkhead flat cars, lumber was nervously shipped aboard standard 40-ft. flat cars. The loads were always vulnerable to shifting and being set out and delayed to be co... (more)

Santa Fe westbound hotshot emerging from tunnel 5 above Bealville

Santa Fe hottest of the hot eastbound Bay area to Chicago 991 train is climbing the Tehachapi Mountain grade about to enter tunnel number two below Bealville, CA

The northbound Lathrop Z train makes its way down the hill as it snakes through the hills at Bealville before entering Tunnel 2.

Amtrak's Coast Starlight gets detour through the Valley and over Tehachapi Pass due to signal testing in Chatsworth. As the sun sets, AMTK 176 leads the southbound Starlight near Tunnel 2.

UP's Mojave Sub dispatcher as all traffic on the hill tucked away for Amtrak's Northbound Starlight as it passes a Southbound BNSF general freight at Bealville.

In the Spring, California's hills turn emerald green. Winding its way through the verdant Tehachapi Mountains on March 7th, 1997, is Burlington Northern Santa Fe train H-KCRI1-04 (High Priority M... (more)

UP's daily Roseville to West Colton manifest passes through the curves scoped through the golden hills of the Tehachapi's by William Hood in the 1870's near Bealville.

BNSF 984 leads this southbound into tunnel 3 at Bealville.

A clean ES44C4 leads a Memphis, TN to Richmond, CA stack train down Tehachapi as it passes North Bealville with a M MODBAR1 waiting in the hole for another northbound to go by.

A long Oakland bound BNSF stack train passes through Bealville in the early morning.

A multi-unit helper assists an eastbound negotiating the tight curves and steep grade at the west end of Bealville. You can just see the red warninig light on a westbound waiting in the siding. In... (more)

BNSF 7603 rolls through Bealville with the rest of its train in the background leaving Cliff.

an eastbound SP manifest train negotiates the horseshoe curve below Bealville in the Tehachapi Mountains