Trading distance for elevation Southern Pacific's Civil Engineer William Hood was able to take his railroad out of the Caliente Valley and over the once thought insurmountable Tehachapis. In just ... (more)
Battling up the western slope of the Tehachapi grade at the bottom end of Marcel is BNSF's eastbound loaded coil steel train, running with three big road motors on the point and aided by two more ... (more)
Climbing out of the Tehachapi foothills and into the Caliente Creek narrows BNSF's eastbound Q STOCHI works through the tunnel 1/2 (half) cut on its ascent to Caliente. Southern Pacific's original... (more)
With Tehachapi's rolling hills still hanging on to Spring Union Pacific's westbound MWCRVC carefully slips down grade at Cliff. Leaving Rowen the Mojave Subdivision occupies a narrow shelf carved ... (more)