A trio of motor's pull containers and trailers out of tunnel 5.

A Stockton to Barstow freight gets a run at the hill with 106 cars to pull up as the wheels bind to the rail in a horseshoe curve out of Caleinte.

The Willow Springs to North Bay zipper heads down the hill between Cliff and Bealville.

A heavy 106 car oiler eases down the hill and passes through Caleinte beside a stopped "H MODBAR1 17". This oiler has BNSF 4188, 3799, CREX 1323, 1 hopper, 52 tankers, BNSF 4498, 4190, 5... (more)

A heavier train loaded with forest products climbs the hill like it is nobodies business. BNSF 3944, UP 6520, BNSF 756 & 5002 provide the power with 106 cars behind.

The tailend DP's of the MODBAR shove the 87 car freight to a stop at Caliente

UP SD70ACe 8999 departs the south switch at Bealville with a loaded rack train.

BNSF ES44DC 7816 leads the Q STOCHI towards Bealville on UP's Mojave Sub. The train is heading northbound out of Tunnel #5.

With some hot reefers on the headend, a BNSF Stockton-Willow Springs Z train climbs over the Tehachapi Mountains.

A five pack of GE's exit the tunnel at Cliff with a smoke show!

The ZLTLC-17 holds the siding as a MWCRVB-16 comes down the hill at Bealville.

BNSF 3931 leads a special filled with city officials of Mojave, Tehachapi and Bakersfield around the curve before the grade crossing at Bealville as the consist charges up the hill towards the Teh... (more)

On March 6, 2001, a southbound Union Pacific manifest freight climbing the steep grades of Tehachapi Pass has stalled at Bealville, California, with locomotive problems. No surprise, since this he... (more)

Not What it Seems

What appears to be one of the cooler consists to lead a train over the Tehachapi Mountains is, in actuality, just the rear helpers on a westbound Burlington Norther... (more)

Dropping through Bealville, California, a westbound BNSF freight (with auto racks up front) approaches Tunnel 2 on February 23, 2016. In the background exiting the Allard horseshoe curve is an eas... (more)