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)

BNSF coil train emerges from the tunnel enroute towards Bakersfield on a Summer afternoon..

Late evening finds the ZLCLT passing through Bealville with 3 units leading the short train today.

A northbound UP manifest pokes around one of the many curves at Bealville, as a southbound BNSF train can be seen in the background above the UP train.

UP's Southbound ZLTLC is tucked away in the siding at Bealville as UP 2644 passes on the main.

I can hear a Union Pacific stack train working upgrade out of Caliente, California, at my position outside the east portal of Tunnel 2 at Bealville. Imagine my disappointment when this battle worn... (more)

Santa Fe 889 leads a hot intermodal train up the 2.1% grade at Tunnel 2. The Super Fleet motor still didn't look too bad yet in 2002...