UP 7377 eases the ZLCBR downgrade as it decends Tehachapi Pass and enters the horseshoe curve at Caliente in the early morning.

A dormant oak tree soaks up the springtime sunshine as boxcars (and a lone tank car) on a Southern Pacific freight march past in the background near Tunnel 1 on Tehachapi Pass at Caliente, Califor... (more)

Southern Pacific SD9 No. 4426 leads a westbound train through Tunnel 2 on Tehachapi Pass above Caliente, California, on March 1, 1988. SP crews and fans fondly called SD9s “Cadillacs.” Trailin... (more)

BNSF 7405 leads its train of intermodal cargo through Caliente as it descends the grade through Tehachapi Pass.

Brand new 8782 leads the Lathrop to Los Angeles Z train around the horseshoe curve at Caliente.

Sun breaks thru the storm as BNSF4521 heads up the hill. UP MOW has finished up for the day and heads home. It is just another day on Tehachapi.

On the afternoon of June 29, 1996, a westbound Southern Pacific unit sugar beet train circles the horseshoe curve at Caliente, California, on the busy Tehachapi Pass route. Four new SP AC4400CWs p... (more)

A 6000 HP duo of SD90Macs lifts a lumber laden Manifest up Tehachapi Pass.

The building boom of the first few years of the new Millennium is very evident in the consist of this train as it climbs out of Caliente, CA. Classic locations like this are soon to be changed ... (more)

A UP military movement challenges the grade of Tehachapi Pass as it rounds the curve at Caliente.

The engineer of H-BARPAS now fires up the more than 28,000HP he has to move this train, as BNSF 4483 blasts out of Caliente and the Tehachapi Mountains. This train will now pick up speed before en... (more)

UP's ZLCBR drops downgrade from tunnel #1 in the early morning and will soon be passing through the Horseshoe curve at Caliente.

On a hot summer day in 1974, an SP westbound descends the steep grade between Bealville and Caliente.

The town of Caliente is situated in a very remarkable horseshoe curve on the relentless climb of Tehachapi Pass in California. Four Santa Fe GE Dash 8-40CWs pull a long intermodal train eastbound ... (more)

BNSF 4335 leads a southbound manifest through the tight arc at Caliente as the assault upon Tehachapi Pass begins.