A Union Pacific south bound QRVWC manifest has crested the Tehachapi summit and is beginning to race down grade by the cement plant in Monolith in the late summer afternoon sun.

BNSF 5733 and her long north bound intermodal quickly climb up and out of the Bena area, as it races off the Tehachapi’s and around the hill’s final curve here at Sandcut, in a late afternoon ... (more)

The DPUs of a south bound UP QRVWC manifest push their way toward Caliente in the bright and early hours of a perfect spring day in the Tehachapi's. The manifest's lead units can also be seen clim... (more)

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)

A short UP manifest climbs up the lower Tehachapi foothills and through the curves of Allard, catching the winter afternoon sun poking in and out of a patchy cloud sky.

In the early glinting hours of a perfect late spring morning in the lower Tehachapi hills, a north bound BNSF intermodal slowly drifts off the grade, through tunnel 1 and down into the Caliente va... (more)

A UP Roseville bound manifest screeches down through Cliff and the Tehachapi Mountains in the early glint light of a perfect spring morning.

Mid morning on a cool winter day in the lower Tehachapi’s brings the daily flow of morning north bounds down the mountain, through the majestic emerald foothills. Here, a BNSF intermodal glides ... (more)

A Union Pacific stack train curves its way through the Caliente Canyon on a perfect winter afternoon.

On an extremely hazy morning at Marcel, a BNSF stack train twists it's way south up through the reverse curves above Tunnel 10 and the Tehachapi Loop. The construction to link up Walong and Marcel... (more)

A meet between intermodals at Bena in late, sun-setting light, as a spring rainfall is seen in the distance over the San Joaquin Valley.

A north bound UP intermodal rolls into Bealville and is set to meet a south bound UP auto rack train under some low hanging storm clouds on a late afternoon in winter.

In some serious summer afternoon heat in the lower Tehachapi foothills, a south bound UP intermodal climbs the grade toward tunnel 2, up through the golden landscape with it's colorful stacks crea... (more)

BNSF DPUs help bring their manifest slowly down the Tehachapi's in the mid morning of a spring day.

Catching the day's last rays of sunlight and approaching the UP/BNSF diamonds in south Fresno on a hot summer afternoon.