BNSF 6120 leads an empty "white worm" back to points east. Sandcut (Bakersfield), CA May 24th, 2019

A flock of Santa Fe Alco S2s and S4s gathers on the turntable tracks at Santa Fe's roundhouse in Bakersfield, CA.

A colorful variety of motive power sits in the diesel service at the Southern Pacific Bakersfield yard a few days after Thanksgiving.

As an eastbound pig train waits on the mainline, C30-7 No. 8162 backs towards it to act as lead helper over Tehachapi Pass.

SJVR GP15 #1561 at Bakersfield.

UP 1522 at Bakersfield.

A BNSF manifest freight eases out of the yard in Bakersfield and departs towards Tehachapi Pass as a yard job shoves a cut of cars into the yard on the far track.

Locomotives:
BNSF 6922... (more)

A BNSF GP60M is on the point of the yard job as working in Bakersfield, shoving a cut of cars down the yard lead as a manifest freight departs and heads east.

Locomotives:
BNSF 145 GP60... (more)

Sole survivor of Espee's roster of 10 4-8-0's, class TW-8. #2914 resides at the Kern County Museum in Bakersfield, California. Schenectady class of 1898.

The beautiful private car Cyrus K. Holiday cools its heels on the rear of the detouring southbound Coast Starlight as it changes crews at the original Southern Pacific depot in Bakersfield prior t... (more)

On 5 May 2004, UP 4859 is in charge of the IOALBR-4. In this scene the Southbound train has made a short pause at Bakersfield, CA at the UP yard for a crew change.

Santa Fe 813 East accelerates out of the yard with a hot BNSF pig train, as another waits to follow it. Of the two railroads in the BNSF merger, ATSF was certainly the one with a knack for intermo... (more)

A brand new Charger brings up the rear of this Eastbound Amtrak as it passes the start of double track at West Bakersfield.

With the relatively slow speeds of Tehachapi behind it, Amtrak 14, the San Joaquin Starlight, highballs the original Southern Pacific depot in Bakersfield for a race up the heart of the Central Va... (more)

With the relatively slow speeds of Tehachapi behind it, Amtrak 14, the San Joaquin Starlight, highballs the original Southern Pacific depot in Bakersfield for a race up the heart of the Central Va... (more)