Amtrak President Gunn's Tehachapi Special just finished going through the horseshoe curve. A BNSF piggyback train can be seen waiting at the siding below. "Coast Starlight" is making an extremel... (more)

An overhead view of Amtrak President Gunn's Tehachapi Special. "Coast Starlight", detouring over Tehachapi Pass, is about to enter the horseshoe curve at Caliente.

BNSF 7784 leads a southbound pig train through the reverse curves at Caliente.

East Portal Tunnel 2

A Tribe of Warbonnets leads a hot Santa Fe way back when......

SPSF, what might have been.

Nearly new ATSF locos in Warbonnet paint lead a WB at Caliente.

SP in the good old days.

Southbound TOFC at Caliente, after Amtrak #11 clears the Tehachapi Loop

For the first time in 30+ years, a scheduled passengar train operates over Tehachapi Pass, seen here as Amtrak's Coast Starlight snakes its way toward Caliente.

UP 5790 leads a southbound manifest, about to enter Tunnel 2 near Caliente.

UP 4541 and a Dash 8-40C lead a southbound baretable train approaching Tunnel 2 on Tehachapi Pass. The hills here are no longer green in October, but they certainly look gold in the afternoon lig... (more)

After meeting a ballast train near Ilmon, BNSF 5176 powers up the grade heading toward Caliente.