A Union Pacific south bound QRVWC manifest has crested the Tehachapi summit and is beginning to race down grade by the cement plant in Monolith in the late summer afternoon sun.

In the last half hour of summer sun light, a glinted south bound BNSF intermodal races across the eastern Tehachapi valley and around the dried Proctor Lake during a wind storm that's kicking up d... (more)

As a sea of heavy fog lingers over the San Joaquin Valley in the distance, a pair of UP locomotives help bring a Roseville, CA bound manifest down grade, around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA in... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal slowly lights it’s way down through the curves at the south end of Marcel on a cold spring night in the upper elevations of the Tehachapi Mountains.

A north bound BNSF intermodal comes racing off the Tehachapi’s and around the mountain’s last curve at Sandcut under a rising moon above in the last minutes of sun light.

The blackened cliff sides, from a big summer grass fire around the eastern end of the Caliente Canyon, are contrasted nicely by the changing colors of the fall season, along the Caliente Creek bed... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal begins to quickly illuminate the inside of the cut, just below the Tehachapi Loop, on the start of another warm Tehachapi summer night.

On a wet, muggy spring morning, a south bound BNSF manifest rounds the horseshoe curve in Caliente, CA on the climb for the summit in Tehachapi, CA.

On a cold, stormy afternoon in the lower Tehachapi foothills, a south bound BNSF stack train rumbles up the grade, between tunnels 1 and 2, while the colors of the spring wildflowers continue to f... (more)

Under a quickly rising moon, a south bound BNSF intermodal works up the Tehachapi grade, through Walong, and around the famed Tehachapi Loop, on a warm summer afternoon.

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)

An east bound BNSF intermodal, that had switched to south bound just a few miles down the rails at Kern Junction, quickly picks up some speed climbing its way out of Bakersfield and the San Joaqui... (more)

On a wet, muggy winter afternoon, an east bound BNSF intermodal rocks and shakes the cables of the old bridge across the San Joaquin River in north Fresno. The river is overflowing, due too an ext... (more)

BNSF 5733 and her long north bound intermodal quickly climb up and out of the Bena area, as it races off the Tehachapi’s and around the hill’s final curve here at Sandcut, in a late afternoon ... (more)

DPUs bring up the rear of a UP manifest in the afternoon light, of a perfect fall day in the tunnel 2 area, as clouds continue to build over the hills east of Caliente, CA.