An early morning sliver of sun light catches the side of a BNSF intermodal wrapping around the curve at the site of old tunnel 6 and is approaching tunnel 5 on this perfect spring morning in the T... (more)

On a wet, misty winter morning, in the highly saturated lower Tehachapi foothills, a north bound BNSF intermodal drifts down the steep grade between tunnels 1 and 2, as the rear portion of the tra... (more)

A south bound BNSF intermodal rumbles it’s way up and through the Caliente Canyons, west of Caliente, on a perfect, late spring morning in the lower Tehachapi Mountains. While a north bound inte... (more)

On a warm, late summer’s morning, just minutes after the sun had peaked the eastern Tehachapi Mountains, a north bound BNSF manifest quickly glides down through the golden hills of Woodford, gli... (more)

Popping out of a cold winter morning fog on BNSF's mainline north of Fresno and crossing the San Joaquin River.

13 minutes of a meet at the Tehachapi Loop.

Three brand new UP Tier 4’s and a Dash 9 bring their north bound manifest down the lower Tehachapi foothills and out of the Allard horseshoe in the early hours of a warm summer day. Evidence of ... (more)

Early sunrise light hits the lead units of a south bound UP manifest rounding the curve entering the Allard Horseshoe.

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)

Under a misty sky, a southbound UP auto rack train breaks the silence as it sounds for the crossing in Bealville on a late winter afternoon.

A BNSF manifest quickly rolls north and through the cut west of Bealville, while an auto rack train holds in the siding for the manifest to clear. A storm hovers over the mountain that would dump ... (more)

Blink, blink, blink. A flashing rear end device on a south bound BNSF grain train blinks it’s way slowly up through the curves of Cable on a warm early summer night at around 1 am in the morning... (more)

On the move and out of town.

A Union Pacific intermodal climbs the Tehachapi grade through the green hills of Bealville on a clear spring day, as a patch of wild Lupines bask in the early afternoon sunlight along the hillside... (more)