In the mid morning light of a dry spring day in the Tehachapi’s, a north bound UP intermodal drifts down the curves from tunnel 1 and into the south leg of the Caliente horseshoe.

An incredibly long UP intermodal is seen beginning it’s climb up the Tehachapi’s, working up through Ilmon, in the muffled light from a cloud covered sky. The muddy watered Caliente Creek flow... (more)

Proving there’s more to the Tehachapi mountains than just trains, a UP intermodal slowly snakes its way north through the highly vegetated hills and cuts around the secluded area of tunnel 8, wh... (more)

Early sunrise light hits the lead units of a south bound UP manifest rounding the curve entering the Allard Horseshoe.

A meet between intermodals at Bena in late, sun-setting light, as a spring rainfall is seen in the distance over the San Joaquin Valley.

Three brand new UP Tier 4’s and a Dash 9 bring their north bound manifest down the lower Tehachapi foothills and out of the Allard horseshoe in the early hours of a warm summer day. Evidence of ... (more)

UP manifest climbing the emerald hills of the Tehachapi foothills around Allard in late afternoon light.

Thundering echoes of a UP stack train, charging up the Tehachapi grade, bounce off the walls of the deep cut below the Tehachapi loop, like a funnel, as the south bound rounds the curve and into v... (more)

A UP auto rack train blasts out of tunnel 5, above Bealville, in the very last light of a beautiful winter's afternoon.

With the winter and spring months of 2016 being extremely green on Tehachapi, it meant that the summer wild grasses of 2016 would be both extremely golden and very tall as well. In spots, it was e... (more)

A north bound UP intermodal rolls into Bealville and is set to meet a south bound UP auto rack train under some low hanging storm clouds on a late afternoon in winter.

In soft, late afternoon light on a stormy winter’s day, a north bound UP intermodal pops out from behind the hill at the old site of tunnel 6 and catches the day’s last rays of sunlight at Cli... (more)

DPUs on a south bound UP manifest continue to push with all their might up through the Caliente Canyon, by a north bound UP manifest, and into the town of Caliente on a perfect spring afternoon.

One from the great spring of 2016 in the Tehachapi foothills. As rain clouds continue to gather and retreat at the same time above Caliente, Tehachapi rail traffic continues to move along nicely w... (more)

Motion blur of a DPU.