My first visit to Tehachapi Pass was all I could have hoped for: Nonstop traffic and crystal clear skies all day! Late on the evening of the summer solstice, a northbound Z train is descending thr... (more)

Two SD45s lead a westbound SP manifest through the curves at Beaville, just east of the Allard Horseshoe.

Westbound SP train exiting tunnel 5 on Tehachapi Pass near Bealville

UP 8045 South holds the siding at Bealville as a BNSF northbound BARPAS passes by on the main.

Improvised helpers on the Hill... As a Southern Pacific eastbound was climbing the Tehachapis on January 20th, 1978, it stalled out at Bealville. So, a westbound descending the hill was s... (more)

On a beautiful spring afternoon, five SD24s lead a westbound Santa Fe manifest through Bealville.

On June 7th, 1998, a pair of former Southern Pacific SD70Ms, 9820 and 9807, along with a Union Pacific SD60M, ease a UP freight downgrade at Bealville, in southern California's Tehachapi Mountains... (more)

A Union Pacific stack train decends Tehachapi Pass at Bealville led by SD70AH No. 8910, SD70M No. 5028, and ES44AC No. 7975.

Union Pacific's Rio Grande heritage unit leads the MWCFR, as it swings into tunnel #2 at the north end of Bealville.

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Two of GE's Tier 4 demonstrators lead a Pasco, WA to Barstow, CA manifest, as it approaches tunnel #2 in the Tehachapi Mountains.

BNSF SD70ACe No. 8534 and ES44C4 No. 8001 bring up the rear of a stack train as it ascends Tehachapi Pass at Bealville.

UP's Northbound ZLCLT intermodal makes a late afternoon run over Tehachapi Pass as it passes Bealville on its journey to Lathrop.

Two of SP's Daylight-painted diesels, SD45R 7399 and SD40E 7342, help the 4449 as it climbs to Bealville.