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.

Grinding upgrade at Bealville, in California's Tehachapi Mountains, is BNSF Railway vehicle train V-RICMEM4-05A (Richmond CA to Memphis TN) on November 6th, 2015. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5007, ES44C4 67... (more)

The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

A pair of Union Pacific trains meet at Bealville in the early afternoon on the Mojave Sub.

4 units along with a CSX GE lead BNSF train ZSTOWSP out of tunnel 3 at Bealville.

Eastbound Santa Fe train about to enter horseshoe curve at old east end of Allard siding now the middle of Bealville siding near Bealville

The Tehachapi Mountains are normally brown in the summer months but a recent wild fire has made it ever browner as nearly new SP 8502 leads an eastbound climbing towards Bealville at the old east ... (more)

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.