The UP shield abounds as both ends of a southbound rack train fill the frame, the locomotives working hard out of tunnel 5 while the last few racks have just exited tunnel 3.
The Hills are alive with the sound of... Dash 9Ws pushing hard on a stack train ascending the grade on UP's Mojave Sub. Not many sights are more stunning than the Tehachapis in springtime.
BNSF 6717 leads a GP60M and an empty coil train into the siding at Bealville to meet a pair of southbounds in the last hour of daylight on a sunny Friday afternoon.
The Tehachapi Mountains are lush with greenery as the sun sinks lower on a gorgeous spring evening. An empty BNSF coil train, with some great power, descends the pass, having just knocked down the... (more)