A southbound Union Pacific office car special climbs Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, California, on February 29, 2016. New GE ET44AC No. 2617 powers the short three-car train, with mobile laboratory ... (more)

Late evening at tunnel 2 near Bealville finds this southbound grain empty working upgrade with a nice colorful lashup.

Temporarily interrupting the quiet peacefulness of the Tehachapi mountains, a northbound BNSF manifest rumbles across a freshly paved though lightly used road in Bealville as it makes its way thro... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 8828 leads a southbound stack train out of Tunnel 2 at Bealville while crossing California’s Tehachapi Pass on February 25, 2016.

Spring of 2014 was fantastic on Tehachapi. Shiny new locomotives were everywhere, and the hills were extremely green, with wild flowers blooming........A bran-new UP2598 screams up Tehachapi Pass ... (more)

Climbing the grades of Tehachapi Pass, a southbound Union Pacific freight curves out of the Allard horseshoe at Bealville, California, on February 26, 2016.

A long southbound Union Pacific intermodal train snakes through the verdant Tehachapi Mountains at Bealville, California, on February 25, 2016. Four six-motor locomotives pull the head end through... (more)

Crawling through multiple curves, an eastbound BNSF stack train passes the west switch at Bealville while climbing California’s Tehachapi Pass on a warm March 2, 2016.

Four new Union Pacific GE ET44ACs lead a northbound freight through the horseshoe curve at Allard, meeting an southbound (eastbound) BNSF intermodal in the Bealville siding on California’s Tehac... (more)

A westbound BNSF freight meets an eastbound Union Pacific freight climbing the grade over the Tehachapi Mountains at West Bealville, California, on a green March 2, 2016.

Due to Tunnel work being done in the Chatsworth area, No. 14 the northbound Coast Starlight, detours through the Tehachapi Mountains to Bakersfield, up the Fresno Sub, over to Altamont pass and r... (more)

Amtrak No. 11 the southbound Coast Starlight Detours off the Coast Route at Oakland and runs over Altamont pass, and down the Fresno Sub to Tehachapi and on to Los Angeles due to Tunnel work being... (more)

A pair of BNSF EMD's lead this Stockton to Barstow manifest at tunnel 2 in the Tehachapi Mountains. This train was running behind a detouring southbound Amtrak Coast Starlight.

After snaking through the curves and tunnels around Caliente, BNSF 3874 leads the Modesto to Barstow manifest through the lush green fields near Tunnel 2 and North Bealville on April 13th, 2018.

In Tehachapi Pass on a very hot day, GE Dash 9 No.4137 leading freight train of BNSF railway going down the slope of Bealville, by Union Pacific Mojave subdivision in Southern California. The trai... (more)