A long Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train snakes its way through Bealville, California, on a hot June 30, 1996. Santa Fe presence is still everywhere, but the third locomotive (a new EM... (more)

UP and BNSF intermodals meet at Bealville on another busy, beautiful day in the Tehachapi mountains.

The DPU's on a Barstow bound manifest push upgrade toward tunnel 5 on a beautiful spring day.

UP's ZLTLA intermodal holds in the siding at Bealville for a series of Northbounds to pass, as BNSF 4502 leads a short general freight downgrade.

BNSF 7405 leads a Northbound intermodal through Bealville.

Clean warbonnet BNSF Dash-9 No. 766 leads four former BN SD40-2s on a westbound freight passing through Bealville, California, on March 28, 2001.

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.