The daily run to Searles departs Trona late in the afternoon.

BNSF 4356 brings up the rear as the train descends the last northbound grade of Tehachapi Pass.

SJVR heads down the Arvin Branch to service industries.

UP 7719 about to cross the center span in Afton Canyon.

Storm clouds compress against the Tehachapi Mountains while a unit steel coil train makes an afternoon run up the pass.

A Northbound Union Pacific stack train rolls through Sandcut on an unusually cloudy May afternoon.

The day's last light finds the Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL "Z" as the train thunders out of the Caliente Creek Canyon.

The setting sun glints off the sides of a southbound manifest train on a dusty afternoon at Sandcut.

BNSF 7221 leads the Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL "Z" train at Sandcut, shortly after sunset.

The crew aboard BNSF 5276 tackles the last hurdle on their trip from Barstow to Bakersfield as the sun nears the horizon.

SP 8588, a wreck victim from a collision on Cajon Pass, sits quietly in the dead line at Oxnard.

BNSF 7347 leads a Southbound baretable near Sandcut.

The sun sets as the cantilever signal stands guard over Sandcut. The headlight of a southbound train is visible near Kern Junction, about 12 miles away.

BNSF 7569 leads a Northbound "Z" train out of Bealville.

An empty coal train from Wasco, CA arrives at Sandcut, just seconds after sunset. The train is operated by BNSF crews between Wasco and Barstow, then handed off to the UP. Today's train has a so... (more)