Amtrak 14 drops drown grade through Bealville and meets a waiting BNSF Z train. The Starlights, trains No. 11 and 14, were both forced to detour for three straight days (Sept. 14-16) following Met... (more)

A Santa Fe intermodal train drops downgrade through the curves at the west switch of Bealville siding on California’s Tehachapi Pass route on March 10, 1995. A trio of Super Fleet GE C40-8Ws pow... (more)

Long shadows are beginning to be cast as Amtrak 14 descends through Bealville and meets a waiting southbound BNSF Z train.

Passing Vanishing History. Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight, No. 14, drops downgrade through Clear Creek Ravine and passes the ill-fated Tunnel 4 as it detours over Tehachapi Pass. Rocke... (more)

A north bound UP manifest rounds the curve at Cliff and down into the Bealville area in the early light of a spring morning.

Three BNSF GEs handle a loaded coal train at Bealville, CA on UP's Mojave Subdivision.

A long eastbound (southbound) BNSF intermodal train has just met a northbound Union Pacific manifest freight in the lengthy siding at Bealville, California, on March 2, 2016. As the BNSF train mar... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific intermodal train is climbing and curving through Bealeville, CA while dodging clouds on a gorgeous Feb 18, 2019.

A long UP manifest just emerged from Tunnel 5 at Cliff Siding in the Tehachapi Mountains. The rear of the train can be seen in the shadows further down the hill.

Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 8014 leads three EMD SD70Ms on a southbound intermodal train climbing California’s Tehachapi Pass on sinuous trackage entering the Allard horseshoe curve at Bealville... (more)

A unit train of cement hoppers drops downgrade through the curves approaching the west switch of the siding at Bealville, California, on March 1, 2016.

The dark concreted enclosure of Tehachapi’s tunnel 3 lies quiet for the majority of the time, until the faint illumination of an approaching train begins to quickly light up the right of way out... (more)

BNSF 6069 pokes out of Tunnel 3 on its climb up Tehachapi with an empty baretable train on the drawbar this afternoon.

The warmth of the summer months dwindle down, as the cloud covered skies of Fall approach the lower Tehachapi elevations, around Bealville, CA, while a UP intermodal below climbs south up through ... (more)

In 1974, Santa Fe was experiencing a power shortage. They pulled sets of SD24's and DL 600's out of storage using them in captive service between Barstow and Bakersfield. Here, a set of five SD24'... (more)