Moon light helps illuminate the stretch of track between tunnels 7 and 8, known as Cliff. The headlight path of a hard working BNSF southbound, popping out of tunnel 7 and then disappearing into ... (more)

On a cool spring Tehachapi night, under the near full moon, the motion blur of a south bound BNSF intermodal moves along through the curves and up the grade between tunnels 1 and 2. The light of a... (more)

The faint glow, from the cloud covered sun setting in the west, hits the side of a short UP cement train climbing the last few miles of the eastern Tehachapi slope here at Monolith, right passed t... (more)

A north bound UP intermodal drops down and around Allard's horseshoe curve in the late afternoon light of a perfect spring day.

Spring finally arrived in the Tehachapi foothills with big fluffy white clouds drifting through the sky, casting shadows on the green landscape. The DPU of a south bound UP intermodal slowly pushe... (more)

Amongst the color and vegetation of spring, a southbound UP manifest pops out of tunnel 2, at the north end of Bealville siding on this cloudy afternoon.

While a southbound BNSF intermodal holds at Bena off in the distance, a UP northbound intermodal races toward a diverging clear signal and the San Joaquin Valley, catching the late afternoon light... (more)

Light from the rear DPU of a southbound train creates a trail that moves along with the curves through Allard. Moon light helps illuminate the hills around the scene on this cool spring night.

Lost within a scene of vast color and hovering cloud cover, a northbound BNSF manifest drifts down and out of the Allard horseshoe and is approaching tunnel 2, under what seems like a display of a... (more)

BNSF 7056 rumbles her manifest through deep cuts and tight curves still miles from peaking the summit as it emerges from one of Tehachapi’s deepest cuts, located below the loop, on a late aftern... (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 UP intermodal drops down into the Bealville boot on a late afternoon in winter.

On a cold, breezy morning in the Tehachapi's, a few minutes before sunrise, a short UP manifest tackles the grade at Keene and is rounding the horseshoe curve.

DPUs bring up the rear of a northbound BNSF grain train descending down the Tehachapi Loop in the moments after sunset on a warm summer day.

Echoing GE locomotives, from a very long BNSF stack train, roar through the green hills of Tehachapi climbing the grade in early morning light, above the Tehachapi loop at Marcel. The upper elevat... (more)