After traveling most of their trip in darkness, the crew on this UP intermodal from LA quickly round their final curve off the west slope of the Tehachapi’s, at Sandcut, during the early hours o... (more)

A short north bound UP hopper train works up into the Monolith area, on Tehachapi’s eastern slope, in the late afternoon sun of a cold winter day, while a low hanging cloud creates a great big s... (more)

Moments after the summer morning sun peaked the eastern Tehachapi hills, a south bound UP manifest is seen slowly climbing it’s way up and through the Caliente area.

Clinging to the side of the hill, alongside Highway 58 in the upper Tehachapi mountains, a morning south bound Union Pacific intermodal battles up the steep grade and through tunnel 14 as the morn... (more)

Night operations on the Tehachapi Pass is a completely different world. Here a north bound manifest quickly drifts down the grade between tunnels 1 and 2 as the headlights light the right of way t... (more)

The mosquitoes were out in force on this steamy summer afternoon by the San Joaquin river, as an east bound BNSF manifest quickly crosses the river with a CitiRail unit leading the way.

The glinting mid train helpers of a Union Pacific QRVWC manifest have switched from helping push to dynamic braking to help keep their train from running out of control as the south bound crested ... (more)

On a late summer morning in the higher Tehachapi Mountains, a south bound BNSF stack train works slowly up grade, passing through tunnels 14, 15, 16 and 17, between Marcel and Cable.

Rail action is at it’s best in Caliente, CA on a cool spring morning, as a south bound UP manifest begins it’s climb out of town and around the horseshoe curve, while another south bound BNSF ... (more)

A north bound Union Pacific manifest drifts down the Tehachapi grade in the late afternoon summer light. The lead units are rounding the hill in the middle of the Tehachapi loop below as the train... (more)

A cool, quiet morning alongside a mellow San Joaquin River, is suddenly awoken by the approach of an east bound BNSF stack train as it races across the river in the very early moments of a fall mo... (more)

A BNSF intermodal glides down the Tehachapi grade between tunnels 1 and 2 on a warm summer morning.

Within the darkened depths of the Caliente Canyon, on a cool fall afternoon, is a south bound BNSF manifest slowly battling its way up through the switch back curves and only minutes from the town... (more)

In the early morning light of a winter day, a north bound BNSF intermodal quickly glides off the hill, between Ilmon and Bena, and is seconds from entering double tracking for the remainder of the... (more)

2 older Union Pacific GE locomotives bring a short string of cement hoppers up the Tehachapi grade and around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a cool, late afternoon.