BNSF 8617 led a baretable up and around the Tehachapi loop

A lone B40-8 in blue bonnet paint leads an A-B-B-A set of GP60s on a Richmond California bound hot shot intermodal while another ATSF intermodal waits in the siding at Tehachapi Loop.

UP 4025 is rounding the loop and heading for tunnel #9

UP 5734 has just rounded the loop

Eastbound BNSF at the loop. The same train can be seen in three locations in this shot. Nice mix of schemes on the power as well.

Note EMD demonstrator colors on the second unit, SD-60 (EMD 9014), leased to Oakway Inc.

Engines going over their own train at the Tehachapi Loop.

Wide angle shot of a westbound BNSF at the Tehachapi Loop. There were two other westbounds (one visible, the other just barely) holding for an eastbound coming up the hill.

Not many places in the world you can photograph the lead and pushing units separated by only 200 feet on the same 3000 foot long train. The lead units are about to loop under its train as the pus... (more)

Wide angle shot of a SP freight working around the Tehachapi Loop in 1994.

As the conductor of an SP westbound in the hole at Walong looks on, Santa Fe 5665 East roars around the Loop on its way to Barstow.

A high-powered Santa Fe eastbound grinds up the approach to the Loop amid the surrounding landscape's greenery.

With the pass covered in snow and temperatures still well below freezing even at lower elevations, Santa Fe 156 East negotiates the final approach to the Loop.

An SP westbound manifest negotiates the Loop, with its power down on the approach, and its cars still coming around the loop above.

SF30C 9520 leads an eastbound around the Loop.