Warbonnet BNSF 8296 leads a southbound stacker at Bealville, California. The SD75m was not the most successful locomotive EMD ever made, but it certainly looked good in Red and Silver....

New Tier IVs....A southbound manifest heavy in lumber thunders thru Bealville. The train has 3 swing helpers that are out of sight inside the Allard Horseshoe. The Spring of 2016 saw the use of a... (more)

A heavy lumber drag curls thru the curves at Bealville, California. The long manifest is powered by three new Heavy Gevos for its climb up the Tehachapi Mountains...

Southbound UP intermodal train climbing into Bealville in the Tehachapi mountains.

Exiting tunnel number 5 on UP's Tehachapi grade is one of the few remaining warbonnets left on the BNSF. Dash 9-44CW #710 was ordered for the Santa Fe but delivered after the BNSF merger and so ha... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train holding the main line at Bealville, California, meets an eastbound BNSF intermodal train on a busy Tehachapi Pass on February 25, 2016.

On September 14, 2013, both of Amtrak's Coast Starlight trains were detoured over Tehachapi Pass and the Central California Valley due to the Union Pacific perform track work along the Coast Subdi... (more)

As a northbound manifest glides down the main track a Bealville, a Barstow-bound manifest prepares to restart the climb over Tehachapi Pass.

Working upgrade out of the east portal of Tunnel 2 at Bealville, California, is an eastbound BNSF intermodal climbing the steep 2.1 percent grade through here on the trip over a green Tehachapi Pa... (more)

Eastbound Richmond, CA to Chicago intermodal climbing Tehachapi Mountains near Bealville.

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 train is powered by ... (more)

Two new GE ET44C4s, Nos. 3969 and 3994, pull a manifest freight up the grade toward Tunnel 2 between Caliente and Bealville on California’s Tehachapi Pass on February 26, 2016. From this angle, ... (more)

Santa Fe EMD SD45 5333 leads an eastbound piggyback train through the Tehachapi Mountains at Bealville.

Not too long after sunrise on February 29, 2016, a westbound BNSF vehicle train meets a BNSF freight at Bealville on California’s scenic Tehachapi Pass.

Working a heavy manifest freight up the steep grades of Tehachapi Pass are three new Union Pacific GE ET44AC (ET44AH) locomotives exiting the Allard horseshoe curve at Bealville, California, on Ma... (more)