The chase is on! While trying to get ahead of the train for another shot, I sneaked in a few frames, reflected through the side mirror.

A pocket of light peers through the clouds as SP 9793 leads an eastbound freight up Tehachapi pass.

UP 8600 rolls down Afton Canyon.

BNSF 5271 leads a manifest train through Bena under a late afternoon sun.

Cloud shrouded Tehachapi Pass lies ahead of UP 7634.

BNSF 6666 charges upgrade near Tunnel 2, just north of Bealville.

A little shaken, but not deterred by a very close encounter with a very angry rattlesnake started this shot of a bare-table dropping down the hill between Sandcut and Bena.

Lightning silhouettes empty centerbeam cars as the train rolls across Comanche Drive.

A detoured empty grain train rolls down Afton Canyon

The setting sun glints off the flanks of BNSF's Stockton, CA to Barstow, CA manifest train. The train rolls through Sandcut shortly after the conclusion of the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012.

BNSF 4710 crawls out of Marcel on its assault up Tehachapi Pass.

BNSF 5782 leads a vehicle train through Bena.

The sound of dynamic brakes screaming and the wheel flanges squealing, amplified by the confines of Tunnel 1, interrupts a peaceful morning as BNSF 6642 descends Tehachapi Pass.

Shot through the cab of Southern Pacific P-8 2467, Southern Pacific 6819 spends the day inside the museum's roundhouse.

BNSF 6796 dodges shadows on the climb out of Caliente. Code line and Searchlight signals, a staple of Tehachapi since the days of steam, will soon succumb to technology and be scribed into the pa... (more)