One of the few remaining locomotives in Southern Pacific paint on the Union Pacific system emerges from Tunnel 3, grinding up Tehachapi Pass.

A lone Union Pacific DPU pushes on the rear of a south bound auto rack train up through the cut below Bealville, CA, as the gnarl trees scattered throughout the Tehachapi foothills make for intere... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight, dominated by heavy lumber loads and powered by a trio of new Union Pacific GE ET44AC (ET44AH) locomotives, snakes through multiple curves up the steep ... (more)

A south bound UP manifest climbs the steep grade out of the Allard horseshoe area and in to Bealville, as a north bound BNSF intermodal, that had just met the manifest at the west end of Bealville... (more)

A BNSF stack train climbs south through the curves just west of Bealville in the mid morning light of a warm summer day.

A shorter north bound UP intermodal drifts around Clear Creek Canyon and is moments from it’s head end going into tunnel 3 while it’s rear end simultaneously goes into tunnel 5 above.

Bealville, California A southbound BNSF manifest leaves Bealville, throttled up for the climb up the 2.2%+ grade ahead. The train has just met the Southbound stack train that can be seen ... (more)

BNSF 6216 leads the HSTOBAR into tunnel 3 at Bealville.

UP 8865 drops downgrade through Bealville under dodgy light and shadows.

BNSF 7691 approaches Tunnel 2 on the train's trek up Tehachapi Pass.

As spring reaches it's peak, BNSF 8368 drags a train of empty grain hoppers up Tehachapi Pass near Bealville.

A Northbound "Z" train drops downgrade at Bealville.

UP 6360 leads a southbound into Tunnel 3 at Bealville.

One of UP's newest ACM rebuilds leads a Southbound at Bealville in the early morning.

BNSF 4245 is about to plunge through Tunnel 2, just prior to Bealville.