BNSF 4523 rolls through a pocket of light cast through a break in a small thunderstorm.

BNSF 6847 drops downgrade between tunnels 5 and 3, just South of Bealville.

With the sun about to slip below the skyline the sky glows with the last rays of sunlight as the classic old SP cantilever signal bridge carries on its duties protecting the Sandcut cross-over. On... (more)

The Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL "Z" train thunders through Sandcut in perhaps the final sunset shot I will capture with the aging cantilever signal as the centerpiece.

The peaceful calm of a spring morning in the Tehachapi pass is shattered by four hard working GE motors as they do battle with the stiff grades and seemingly endless number of curves that rule the... (more)

BNSF 7569 leads a Northbound "Z" train out of Bealville.

BNSF 5063 heads up a heavy manifest, ascending Tehachapi Pass just below Bealville.

Shortly after sunset, BNSF 4889 pulls through Sandcut.

Amtrak's detouring Coast Starlight rounds the curve on the approach to Tunnel #2 at Bealville as it climbs Tehachapi Pass.

Approaching the town of Tehachapi, detouring southbound Amtrak train #11 climbs the last few miles of the mountain grade as it passes the Cable crossover.

Passing through Sandcut, this BNSF freight extra is heading back toward Bakersfield. These two ES44DC locomotives were seen earlier in the day running light to Caliente to retrieve a cut of cars l... (more)

Between Warren and Mojave, detouring southbound Amtrak train #11 passes beneath the venerable SP signal bridge at milepost 377, a structure with days that are now numbered as signal replacements t... (more)

Detouring Amtrak train #11 climbs the grade on Tehachapi Pass as it approaches Tunnel 2 between Caliente and Bealville.

Passing beneath the SP cantilever signal bridge at Sandcut, a northbound UP intermodal heads into Bakersfield where a new crew will board.

Winding through the curves at Samdcut, a northbound BNSF doublestack container train is nearing Bakersfield, and will continue up California's lush central valley toward the bay area.