A loaded unit steel train passes through Caliente as it begins the journey up Tehachapi Pass.
UP 2562 shoves hard on the rear of a heavy southbound lumber drag from Roseville to West Colton.
Four EMD 45’s of three variants, along with a C30-7, have brought their 69-car train over the Tehachapi Mountains, and now exit Caliente as they head toward Bakersfield.
Illustrating the steep grade and the mountainous scenery that gives Tehachapi its notoriety, a 69-car westbound Santa Fe freight drops to the valley floor and negotiates the horseshoe curve at Cal... (more)
Late on a spring day, a westbound Santa Fe freight zigzags downgrade through the reverse curves at Caliente. When SP built the line over Tehachapi, its construction crews came right up the very fi... (more)
A BNSF train is bound for Bakersfield and beyond as it emerges from Tunnel 2 near Caliente. The train has just traversed famed Tehachapi Loop.
The Oil Cans grind upgrade out of Caliente toward tunnel 1 with a fickle sun over head.
UP 8234 leads a Benicia to Spring Texas rack train at S. Caliente.
A brand new CSXT unit has found it's way onto today's BNSF Stockton to Chicago Z, as it works through Caliente in Tehachapi Pass.
NS 8103, the Norfork & Western Heritage unit looks very out of place working on the rear of this BNSF Stockton to Chicago Q train in Tehachapi Pass.
Eastbound BNSF manifest climbing out of Caliente
Not much to show for spring time in the Tehachapi Mountains this year. Looks like the dead of summer already, thanks to another dry winter, UP 8046 north passes the end of double track at Caliente... (more)
Santa Fe's hottest intermodal Richmond to Chicago train 991 was climbing the Tehachapi grade eastbound out of Caliente