A westbound BNSF freight meets an eastbound Union Pacific freight climbing the grade over the Tehachapi Mountains at West Bealville, California, on a green March 2, 2016.

Due to Tunnel work being done in the Chatsworth area, No. 14 the northbound Coast Starlight, detours through the Tehachapi Mountains to Bakersfield, up the Fresno Sub, over to Altamont pass and r... (more)

Amtrak No. 11 the southbound Coast Starlight Detours off the Coast Route at Oakland and runs over Altamont pass, and down the Fresno Sub to Tehachapi and on to Los Angeles due to Tunnel work being... (more)

A pair of BNSF EMD's lead this Stockton to Barstow manifest at tunnel 2 in the Tehachapi Mountains. This train was running behind a detouring southbound Amtrak Coast Starlight.

After snaking through the curves and tunnels around Caliente, BNSF 3874 leads the Modesto to Barstow manifest through the lush green fields near Tunnel 2 and North Bealville on April 13th, 2018.

In Tehachapi Pass on a very hot day, GE Dash 9 No.4137 leading freight train of BNSF railway going down the slope of Bealville, by Union Pacific Mojave subdivision in Southern California. The trai... (more)

On February 24, 2016, winter rains have made the grass-covered hills on Tehachapi Pass a verdant green as an eastbound (southbound) Union Pacific intermodal climbs the grade toward the Allard hors... (more)

In the dry and hot places of the Tehachapi mountains, UP power lead by AC45CCTE No. 8156, cross the tunnel No. 5 on the way down to Bealville in Tehachapi Pass.

New GE ET44AC locomotive leading Union Pacific stack train which approaches the tunnel No.2 between Caliente and Bealville, by Tehachapi Pass in UP Mojave Subdivision. In the background, a train o... (more)

UP power approaching tunnel No. 5 on the way down to Bealville in Tehachapi Pass. At the background and bottom, movement of a BNSF train in Caliente going up to Bealville, to intersect with this U... (more)

With the rear of its train still passing through Tunnel 1, BNSF 4258 leads its eastbound train through Tunnel 2 and toward the southern end of the Bealville siding and it battles the grade up Teha... (more)

As fog dances in and out of the Tehachapi hills around tunnel 2, a BNSF grain train climbs south right through the fog toward Bealville siding.

A Union Pacific stack train climbs through Bealville, California, amid the green grass and wildflowers of springtime on Tehachapi Pass on March 1, 2016. Powering the eastbound (southbound) train i... (more)

Dropping downgrade on serpentine trackage at West Bealville is a westbound BNSF unit grain train on February 25, 2016. The heavy train is negotiating California’s Tehachapi Pass route, with two ... (more)

A westbound BNSF unit grain train drops downgrade through the spring green Tehachapi Mountains between Tunnel No. 2 and Tunnel 1 just west of Bealville, California, on February 25, 2016.