Now that the mid-train helper set has been cut out, SP 9355 East has stopped after backing down to re-connect to the back half of its train while a westbound Santa Fe intermodal races by. The hel... (more)

UP5767 is almost to the summit of the Tehachapi as it blasts thru Cable....

The DPU on a UP stack train ascending to Tehachapi snakes through the curves at Marcel.

BNSF grain train G EDIGUC9 31 passes the endangered ABS signals at Monolith on it's way to feed the cows in Guernsey, CA.

A southbound BNSF intermodal train winds around a horseshoe curve at Keene, CA on a weather/picture perfect day in May. The Chavez Center is in the middle of the horseshoe. No haze, no clouds, ... (more)

The conductor of SP 2704 is about to throw the switch so the SD7 and her mates can cross over from the east- to the westbound main and return to Bakersfield after helping a manifest up the hill to... (more)

End of train at the Loop

End of train at the Loop

BNSF 6977 passes under the the canteliver signal bridge in downtown Tehachapi.

UP's Northbound ZLCLT passes a ballast train tied down in the Summit siding.

As a storm front approaches town, a southbound manifest freight is nearing the summit as it heads towards Barstow.

SP SD7 No. 2704 and mates wait for permission from the Valley-Mountain dispatcher in Bakersfield to head light down the mountain after helping an eastbound manifest. Many of SP's SD7s were deliver... (more)

A southbound BNSF intermodal train begins looping itself on a weather/picture perfect day in May. No haze, no clouds, light wind, 55 degrees. The plane and its pilot were chartered at the Tehach... (more)

Splitting the Southern Pacific searchlight signals east of downtown Tehachapi, a BNSF piggy back train has just completed the 23 mile run over Tehachapi Pass, following the UP's Mojave Subdivision... (more)

Snaking its way over the final miles of the Tehachapi Pass, a southbound pig train will soon glide its way into Tehachapi and east along the UP Mojave Subdivision.