Special thanks to the moon for staying up late this morning and looking down over a Union Pacific train crossing over itself on the Tehachapi Loop.

As the sun rises, a UP northbound UP manifest starts around the Tehachapi Looop.

The rear DPU of a Union Pacific manifest rounds the Tehachapi Loop and crosses over itself as it heads north toward Bakersfield.

With the view that can be mistaken for a painting, UP 7999 leads a long manifest eastbound up grade at the Tehachapi Loop.

Grinding upgrade as it climbs over the Tehachapi Mountains is BNSF train Z-NBYWSP1-10U. heading from North Bay, California, near Richmond in the Bay Area, to Willow Springs, fourteen miles west of... (more)

D8-40CW 873 leads C30-7 8155, D8-40BW 509 and D8-40CW 807 round the loop.

The rear DPUs of a long north bound BNSF manifest help bring their train down into the lower Tehachapi Mountains and around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a perfect spring morning. Cloud shad... (more)

A long south bound BNSF manifest slowly rounds the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a cold winter morning in the Tehachapi mountains as a heavy central California valley fog is seen off in the dist... (more)

A north bound UP intermodal drifts down the Tehachapi grade and around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA while the setting winter afternoon sun glows the rocks along the hillside.

2 older Union Pacific GE locomotives bring a short string of cement hoppers up the Tehachapi grade and around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a cool, late afternoon.

The DPUs of a long north bound BNSF manifest are seen winding their way down the Tehachapi grade and in to the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a warm, late summer morning. The orange of the lead u... (more)

UP 9085 thunders upgrade on the approach to the Tehachapi Loop.

Bear mountain peak soaks in the sunlight as big summer clouds drift by above. Below, a long south bound BNSF stack train slowly climbs the steep grade around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a ... (more)

BNSF 5193 and the head-end power on this northbound grain train begin their final decent down toward Walong and Tunnel 9 and the train's three mid-train DPU's, including a Canadian visitor, still ... (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)