On a wet, muggy winter afternoon, an east bound BNSF intermodal rocks and shakes the cables of the old bridge across the San Joaquin River in north Fresno. The river is overflowing, due too an ext... (more)

BNSF 5733 and her long north bound intermodal quickly climb up and out of the Bena area, as it races off the Tehachapi’s and around the hill’s final curve here at Sandcut, in a late afternoon ligh... (more)

DPUs bring up the rear of a UP manifest in the afternoon light, of a perfect fall day in the tunnel 2 area, as clouds continue to build over the hills east of Caliente, CA.

A BNSF manifest climbs it’s way up the Tehachapi Mountains and is approaching Tunnel 2, in the late afternoon light of a cloudy winter day.

DPUs on a south bound UP manifest push through the Caliente Canyon, by a north bound UP manifest, and into the town of Caliente on a perfect spring afternoon.

DPUs push the tail end of their BNSF stack train up and around Cliff and into a threatening storm above.

The race to the northern switch of Bealville siding between a north bound BNSF intermodal and a south bound UP lumber drag, won by the south bound of course, as the north bound would quickly slow ... (more)

Climbing the warm, parched foothills of Bealville and blasting its way out of tunnel 5 above, in a cloud of smoke, as the south bound UP manifest’s rear DPUs cross the Bealville Road crossing belo... (more)

In the early morning light of a winter day, a north bound BNSF intermodal quickly glides off the hill, between Ilmon and Bena, and is seconds from entering double tracking for the remainder of the... (more)

The sound of the Tehachapi Creek echoing through the deep, shadowy gorge below Cliff, creates a similar feeling of when standing by the Merced River in Yosemite Natural Park, while a north bound B... (more)

A short north bound UP hopper train works up into the Monolith area, on Tehachapi’s eastern slope, in the late afternoon sun of a cold winter day, while a low hanging cloud creates a great big sha... (more)

In the midst of a hazy morning in the lower Tehachapi hills, a north bound BNSF intermodal drifts its way down the extremely saturated landscape, around the horseshoe curve through tunnel 2, and i... (more)

Within the hazy depths of the Caliente Canyon, a south bound BNSF intermodal, with a borrowed UP unit, echoes it’s way through the rocky hill sides and is minutes from entering the town of Calient... (more)

A BNSF stack train heads south up the Tehachapi Mountains, and around the loop, under a cloud covered winter sky.

A short UP manifest climbs up the lower Tehachapi foothills and through the curves of Allard, catching the winter afternoon sun poking in and out of a patchy cloud sky.