Southbound BNSF manifest snaking its way into Caliente behind an interesting mix of power including a NREX SD45 putting off some great echoes in the canyon below.
A pair of nice warbonnet BNSF GEs lead a northbound Z train out of Tunnel 1 at Caliente on a beautiful fall morning.
Lots of locomotives!
DRGW 5508/5506 and an SP unit head downhill from Tehachapi into Tunnel #1 in the late afternoon.
Coming around the horseshoe curve...and a self-portrait
A UP southbound train travels up grade, out of tunnel #2, and along the siding of Bealville in the Tehachapi Mtns. Exposure was 3 minutes long, under a near full moon.
Baby Boat 6364 leads a typical pre-merger mixed consist approaching Tunnel 2.
with numbers 896 and 507 wait to proceed with an eastbound manifest as a westbound intermodal passes by led by 660 and 4890.
On a soggy April day, SP SD40 7362 and three SD45s bring an empty freight around the horseshoe curve at Caliente. Look at all those lights -- Gyralight, numberboards, headlight, class lights, even... (more)
It's March, and high above the Tehachapi Loop, the mountains are covered in a slight dusting of snow...
Leaving Tunnel #2
Entering Tunnel #2
A rebuilt U36C heads downgrade into Caliente on a hot morning in May 1987. The Santa Fe referred to these units as SF30Cs and squeezed quite a few extra miles out of them.
