The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak SDP40F 518 and 517, is racing east downgrade through Cameron after cresting the Tehachapi Summit. Coming around th... (more)
After sitting at Walong for around 2 hours for a broken rail, the MWCRVB-27 finally gets a move on it's trip north as it passes the intermediates, which are in the last days of their reign on the... (more)
Under moody January skies, UP 6809 and 2 other GE motors power the AMIEPR-26 at the horseshoe near Keene,CA.
Man, they ran long trains, usually with far more power because you almost never arrived with all the original units running. Like a period to a good sentence, the caboose provided punctuation to ... (more)
4 BNSF motors on the head end, along with some mid train DPU's, have finished the battle with the Tehachapi's eastern slope with a solid string of grain cars in tow glide downhill near Tunnel 1.
BNSF 7807 heads West, passing under the famous (and soon to be replaced) Tehachapi signal cantilever, as it crosses over to the Eastbound main in order to avoid the derailment fouled Westbound tra... (more)
UP maintainers lift a searchlight back into position at Cable, after it was knocked down by the derailment that morning.
The old and the new. Three widecab locomotives, each belonging to a different road lead a BNSF hopper train through Tehachapi, passing the old code line poles, soon to be removed.
SP 5304 near Techachapi 1977
A H3 painted Dash-9 is in charge of a 4x3x2 loaded grain shuttle as it slowly makes its descent on Tehachapi Pass on a cold January evening.
BNSF 4740 north works towards Tehachapi Summit as it passes one of the few remaning SP searchlights still standing on the Mojave Sub.
BNSF 6555 south races across the Tehachapi valley as it passes under the hi-wide detector at MP 363.8.
2 of BNSF's newest C4's lead this southbound into the town of Tehachapi.