The hotshot BNSF North Bay - Willow Springs UPS train rounds the town of Caliente and begins the climb east up the Tehachapi Pass in earnest. Leaving Bakersfield, CA around 1pm every day, it is t... (more)

Southbound MRVWCB works up the #2 track at Caliente where a hot BNSF intermodal will over take them on the #1 main.

A Southbound UP auto train passes through Caliente as the tail end of a BNSF manifest can be seen working up grade above.

UP 5462 is seen leading its train downhill into Caliente.

Southbound tonnage pulls hard out of the siding at Caliente as they begin the long twisting climb to Tehachapi Summit.

BNSF 610 leads a hot Southbound intermodal through Caliente as they run around a slower UP manifest.

Northbound tonnage heads onto the #2 track at Caliente this afternoon as a Southbound is holding on the #1.

Late evening finds UP's Los Angeles to Lathrop stack train passing through Caliente as seen from tunnel 1.

A southbound BNSF manifest enters Tunnel #2 on Tehachapi Pass led by #4462. This train has just climbed out of Caliente,CA and is in the first section of the formidable pass up to Tehachapi, CA.

Four trains are visible in this aerial that has Caliente in the upper left and Bealville in the upper right. The first of three southbounds is climbing above tunnel five south of Bealville; a sec... (more)

A Union Pacific autorack train descends the 2.2% grade as it nears the entrance to Tunnel #1 between Bealville and Caliente, CA.

A Southbound intermodal passes the South switch at Caliente.

Southbound tonnage pulls hard as it exits the horseshoe curve at Caliente and begins the long twisting climb to Tehachapi Summit.