A north bound UP manifest rounds the curve at Cliff and down into the Bealville area in the early light of a spring morning.

Three BNSF GEs handle a loaded coal train at Bealville, CA on UP's Mojave Subdivision.

A long eastbound (southbound) BNSF intermodal train has just met a northbound Union Pacific manifest freight in the lengthy siding at Bealville, California, on March 2, 2016. As the BNSF train mar... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific intermodal train is climbing and curving through Bealeville, CA while dodging clouds on a gorgeous Feb 18, 2019.

A long UP manifest just emerged from Tunnel 5 at Cliff Siding in the Tehachapi Mountains. The rear of the train can be seen in the shadows further down the hill.

Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 8014 leads three EMD SD70Ms on a southbound intermodal train climbing California’s Tehachapi Pass on sinuous trackage entering the Allard horseshoe curve at Bealville... (more)

A unit train of cement hoppers drops downgrade through the curves approaching the west switch of the siding at Bealville, California, on March 1, 2016.

The dark concreted enclosure of Tehachapi’s tunnel 3 lies quiet for the majority of the time, until the faint illumination of an approaching train begins to quickly light up the right of way out... (more)

BNSF 6069 pokes out of Tunnel 3 on its climb up Tehachapi with an empty baretable train on the drawbar this afternoon.

The warmth of the summer months dwindle down, as the cloud covered skies of Fall approach the lower Tehachapi elevations, around Bealville, CA, while a UP intermodal below climbs south up through ... (more)

In 1974, Santa Fe was experiencing a power shortage. They pulled sets of SD24's and DL 600's out of storage using them in captive service between Barstow and Bakersfield. Here, a set of five SD24'... (more)

A southbound Union Pacific intermodal train enters the big horseshoe curve at Allard as it passes through Bealville, California, while climbing Tehachapi Pass on the beautiful spring day of March ... (more)

An EMD SD45 leads an SP westbound out of tunnel 5. This is the sight of much damage caused by the 7.3 earthquake of 1952. Tunnel 5 was contorted and tunnel 4 destroyed, the latter being bypassed a... (more)

The snow on Tehachapi on Feb 6 didn't make it down to the lower elevations of the pass. A BNSF perishables, containers and TOFC approaches Tunnel 3 as it rolls through the park like setting of Bea... (more)

SP 7312 East roars out of the siding at the east end of Bealville, pouring diesel exhaust high into the sky overhead.