GP50 3850 and GP39-2 3676 were taken off a westbound to rescue a stalled eastbound at Bealville. Here the cavalcade emerges from Tunnel 5 into the rapidly fading evening light. Photo 654631 shows ... (more)

UP 6160 drops downgrade between Cliff and Bealville on the Tehachapi Pass.

Far from the lush greenery of the East Coast, NS 4572 pulls a BNSF empty oil train out of the siding at Bealville on the Tehachapi Pass.

Green hills, puffy clouds and nice light combine to set the scene for BNSF 5922 as the train climbs towards Bealville on Tehachapi Pass.

A Southbound welded rail train pulls through Bealville.

Powered by four BNSF GE locomotives, an eastbound BNSF freight works upgrade approaching Tunnel 2 just west of the siding at Bealville, California, on the afternoon of February 26, 2016.

The Springtime hills of the Tehachapi Mountains are clad in green as northbound BNSF C-44-9W slides containers downhill between tunnel No. 3 and Tunnel. No.5.

Crawling through multiple curves, an eastbound BNSF stack train passes the west switch at Bealville while climbing California’s Tehachapi Pass on a warm March 2, 2016.

One of the few remaining locomotives in Southern Pacific paint on the Union Pacific system emerges from Tunnel 3, grinding up Tehachapi Pass.

A lone Union Pacific DPU pushes on the rear of a south bound auto rack train up through the cut below Bealville, CA, as the gnarl trees scattered throughout the Tehachapi foothills make for intere... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight, dominated by heavy lumber loads and powered by a trio of new Union Pacific GE ET44AC (ET44AH) locomotives, snakes through multiple curves up the steep ... (more)

A south bound UP manifest climbs the steep grade out of the Allard horseshoe area and in to Bealville, as a north bound BNSF intermodal, that had just met the manifest at the west end of Bealville... (more)

A BNSF stack train climbs south through the curves just west of Bealville in the mid morning light of a warm summer day.

A shorter north bound UP intermodal drifts around Clear Creek Canyon and is moments from it’s head end going into tunnel 3 while it’s rear end simultaneously goes into tunnel 5 above.

Bealville, California A southbound BNSF manifest leaves Bealville, throttled up for the climb up the 2.2%+ grade ahead. The train has just met the Southbound stack train that can be seen ... (more)