After holding at Cliff for a track inspecter to enter the siding, UP 1995 North passes through Bealville in the late afternoon and will hold the main at the North switch for a southbound freight.
SD90MAC 8509 lifts a lumber drag thru the Curvature at Bealville. The short-lived 6000 horsepower 90Macs spent much of their short service lives battling this grade with heavy lumber drags.
BNSF 6661 and three other units scream as they slowly bring a long stack train through Bealville on their treacherous journey over Tehachapi Pass.
The all-EMD helper on today's Oil Cans roars through the east end of Bealville as it pushes the 10,000-ton train up the steep grade and tight curves on this part of Tehachapi.
The view way up from Hwy 58 shows the UP 1989 continuing its way down grade through beautiful mountain scenery soon to enter Tunnel Three.
The brake shoe haze and dust kicked up by a downhill Santa Fe coal train catches the reddish rays of the setting sun at the east end of Bealville. This heavy coal load is headed for a cogenerator ... (more)
As one of Santa Fe's ubiquitous red cabooses brings up the rear of an eastbound drag at tunnel 2, several westbounds wait for it to clear so they can continue their descent to Bakersfield. At over... (more)
BNSF 4353 with a long intermodal train is waiting in the siding at Bealville for a meet.
Spring time on Tehachapi Pass! The green rolling hills of the scenic Tehachapi Pass compliment the UP yellow as a northbound manifest twists around the Pass on a beautiful spring evening.
Early afternoon at Tunnel #2 finds this southbound BNSF intermodal working up grade through Tehachapi Pass.
The 2.2% ruling grade over Tehachapi Pass is very apparent in this shot as northbound stacks head through the horseshoe curve at Allard.
A Southbound rack train works up grade near Tunnel 2 at Bealville in the late afternoon.
