Slipping under the old cantilever signal bridge in downtown Tehachapi, UP's westbound West Colton to Fresno, CA manifest is led by Denver & Rio Grande heritage unit #1989. No stranger to the Tehac... (more)

With the cool of the evening settling in over the Tehachapi mountains the normality of a Friday evening in downtown Tehachapi is greeted by the roar of eastbound BNSF tonnage, pulling the grade th... (more)

A trademark of Tehachapi's eastern slope, the old Southern Pacific era iron frame signal bridge at MP 377 frames a westbound BNSF double stack train as it crawls out of the desert and into the Teh... (more)

For the first time since leaving Caliente the rails of Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision cross the Tehachapi Creek as the railroad leaves Rowen. Eastbound BNSF tonnage conforms to the bitting cur... (more)

Wildflowers cover the hillsides above Cliff as a loaded train of coil steel struggles up the western slope of the Tehachapi grade.

The whine of dynamics pierce the afternoon calm as westbound BNSF grain loads drop through the Tehachapi foothills at Ilmon. CitiRail ES44AC 1206 and Norfolk Southern C40-9W 9288 add some color to... (more)

Through the morning mist the sun begins to get the better of lingering morning clouds as Union Pacific's hotshot Brooklyn trailers snake up the western slope of the Tehachapi grade leaving Marcel.... (more)

The quiet calm of a Spring morning in the Tehachapi mountains is interrupted by a labored roar, synonymous with Tehachapi's Hills for the better part of 140 years, the unmistakable battle cry hera... (more)

Its journey over the rugged and formidable Tehachapi grade nearly at an end BNSF's eastbound Z STOWSP drifts down grade at Warren, emerging from the Cache Creek narrows and conforming to the final... (more)

On top of the twisting curves needed to maintain a reasonable gradient leaving the floor of the Caliente Valley, Southern Pacific Civil Engineer William Hood's forces holed two tunnels through the... (more)

The serpentine curves which William Hood utilized in order to take the Southern Pacific Railroad out of the Caliente Valley and up the Tehachapi range, ultimately to link northern and southern Cal... (more)

Leaving the floor of the Caliente Valley at the conflux of the Caliente and Tehachapi Creeks, William Hood directed the rails of the Southern Pacific Railroad up the once thought insurmountable Te... (more)

With the rolling Tehachapi Hills dressed down with Spring wildflowers a 3 car Union Pacific inspection special departs Bealville behind new ET45AH 2617. The special included: Union Pacific's Mobil... (more)

Like a vampire in the presence of the morning sun, fog begins to lift and melt away, allowing precious rays of morning light to slip passed the thick shroud still covering the Tehachapi's. With a ... (more)

Heavily laden with lumber from the Pacific Northwest, Union Pacific's eastbound QRVWC begins its climb through the Tehachapi foothills at Ilmon, leaving the southern San Joaquin Valley behind. Aft... (more)