BNSF 4998 East roars out of the siding at the east end of Bealville ahead of 843 East, sitting on the main.

Mid-Train Helpers. A Roger Puta Photograph

On a hazy afternoon, as seen from the east end of Bealville, an SP eastbound climbs the torturous grade between tunnel 3 and Cliff. The cut the train is entering used to be tunnel 6. The manifest ... (more)

A BNSF manifest descends the grade in Bealville under a full Moon.

Winter rains have nicely greened up the grassy hills around Bealville on California’s Tehachapi Pass on February 24, 2016, as an Union Pacific manifest freight climbs through the Allard horsesho... (more)

In a surprise move by the dispatcher, BNSF 4998 East--a manifest--roars to life and will exit the siding at the east end of Bealville ahead of a stack train waiting on the main line.

Nice golden brown color on the Tehachapi mountains now as a BNSF double stack ascends the grade near Allard. The end of the train and it's DPU locomotives can be seen down the hill from this vanta... (more)

As a westbound Santa Fe piggyback train descends the western slope of Tehachapi, waycar 999279 puts a soon-to-disappear punctuation point on the end of the train. The caboose has just exited Tunne... (more)

SP 6788 East, a manifest headed for the yard at West Colton, CA, grinds its way up the relentless grade at Bealville in the heart of the Tehachapi Mountains. The smooth, rounded sides of the mount... (more)

A westbound ATSF train in the Tehachapis highballs Bealville siding. The train was just the right length.

A BNSF intermodal struggles up the grade as a mixed freight coasts down the grade at sunset.

4 units lead the Northbound ZLCLT as it's about to duck into tunnel 3 at Bealville.

An Eastbound stack train meets the morning light as it accelerates out of the siding.

Passing maintenance-of-way forces in the siding, an eastbound BNSF intermodal train climbs the grade up toward Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, California, on February 24, 2016. Leading the train towa... (more)

Battling upgrade out of Beaville, BNSF 8251 leads a southbound grain train out of Tunnel 3 and past the long-abandoned Tunnel 4 as it works its way toward Cliff and Tunnel 5. Drones have not opene... (more)