A north bound BNSF intermodal slowly lights it’s way down through the curves at the south end of Marcel on a cold spring night in the upper elevations of the Tehachapi Mountains.

A UP auto rack train blasts out of tunnel 5, above Bealville, in the very last light of a beautiful winter's afternoon.

A north bound BNSF manifest is seen here slowly rolling underway again around the Tehachapi loop, after holding at the north end of the siding, in a moon lit scene at about midnight. The light fro... (more)

The faint glow, from the cloud covered sun setting in the west, hits the side of a short UP cement train climbing the last few miles of the eastern Tehachapi slope here at Monolith, right passed t... (more)

A southbound BNSF flat car train of containers circles the horseshoe curve in Caliente in the mid-morning hours of a winter day.

A north bound BNSF manifest loops around the Tehachapi Loop and begins to exit out of tunnel 9 on a gloomy spring morning.

Late afternoon summer sun back lights the summit area of Tehachapi as a south bound UP manifest crests the hill during a strong wind storm kicking up a cloud of dust around the sprinting train tha... (more)

Spring in the lower Tehachapi foothills.

A north bound BNSF intermodal glints in the morning light as it exits Caliente and approaches the Caliente canyon on a perfect spring morning. Up the mountain at Cliff, a south bound UP manifest c... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal begins to quickly illuminate the inside of the cut, just below the Tehachapi Loop, on the start of another warm Tehachapi summer night.

Pushing the rear of it's Fresno manifest south up the Tehachapi's on a warm summer morning at Marcel.

Slowly poking out of tunnel 10 and into the summer morning sun is BNSF 6765 and her extremely long south bound stack train that requires 2 more locomotives right behind 6765 and an additional 2 on... (more)

As a sea of heavy fog lingers over the San Joaquin Valley in the distance, a pair of UP locomotives help bring a Roseville, CA bound manifest down grade, around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA in... (more)

The Caliente Creek flows more like a river on this spring afternoon in February 2017 as a BNSF grain train rumbles south up beside the creek and is entering the north end of the Caliente Canyon. T... (more)

Bear mountain peak soaks in the sunlight as big summer clouds drift by above. Below, a long south bound BNSF stack train slowly climbs the steep grade around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a ... (more)