A long BNSF intermodal train climbs the 2.1 percent grade at Bealville, California, on February 24, 2016. Leading the eastbound train is CREX No. 1323 and two BNSF Dash 9s, with the head end of th... (more)

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A westbound BNSF vehicle train has just met an eastbound BNSF stack at Bealville (seen above) and is dropping though the multiple curves below Allard on the afternoon of Feb... (more)

Winter rains have made the grassy hills on Tehachapi Pass an emerald green as an eastbound (southbound) Union Pacific intermodal climbs past maintenance-of-way working in the siding at Bealville, ... (more)

Tehachapi. The twisting grade between Tunnel One and Bealville is a stiff 2.1%. This westbound manifest heavy with lumber is climbing the grade as it enters the north leg of the Allard horseshoe.... (more)

Tehachapi Pass separates the Tehachapi Mountains from the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is the Sierra Nevada Mountains that can be seen rising in the distance....This long manifest heavy i... (more)

A Heavy Tier IV Gevo leads a short eastbound manifest around the Allard horseshoe. A grade of 2.1% lifts trains out to of the Caliente Creek drainage. Winter rains have brought early spring flow... (more)

With the Tehachapi Mountains nicely greened up by winter rains, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack train grinds upgrade toward Bealville, California, on March 28, 2001. Former Santa Fe EMD SD40-... (more)

The hot Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z9 descends down Tehachapi Pass as navigates through Tunnel 2 near Bealville.

As BNSF Railway train Z-STOWSP6-06L grinds uphill at Bealville, in California's Tehachapi Mountains, dust from the sanders can be seen along the rail beneath the locomotives. This train, a priori... (more)

Snaking through the siding of Bealville, a heavy Fresno, CA to West Colton, CA manifest battles up the heavy grade of Tehachapi Pass as the sound of AC traction motors can be heard roaring off th... (more)

With Tehachapi's hills looking unusually green for late December, Union Pacific's Lathrop, Calif to Los Angeles (LATC), Calif. high priority intermodal train battles up the grade towards Tunnel 2 ... (more)

Seen from the top of Tunnel 2, four BNSF Dash-9s (and elephant style to boot) navigate down the famous Tehachapi Pass with over 100 cars of loaded grain for central valley of California.

After waiting in the siding for a northbound train to pass, the Bakersfield to Barstow BNSF manifest (running under UP symbol MBKBAJ 28 since it is on UP tracks) slowly starts to move as it tries ... (more)

A freight in a siding at Bealville, photo taken from cab of F7A 306 pulling Train #2 the San Francisco Chief. Rear engine is chopped nose Alco #840. A Roger Puta photograph.

A Roger Puta photograph.