Rounding the horseshoe curve at the northern end of the Cliff siding, Amtrak 14, the northbound Coast Starlight, prepares to enter Tunnel 5 during its decent of Tehachapi Pass. To the left and off... (more)
Every one of the nine EMDs on this eastbound SP coal drag--including the four here on the rear--are screaming in notch 8 to lift 10,000 tons up the steep grade at the east end of Cliff. The coal i... (more)
A Roger Puta Photograph
An eastbound Santa Fe manifest, led by a GP30 and a half-dozen GP35’s, passes two Southern Pacific SD9’s on a work train at Cliff. Caliente is visible over the cab of the lead unit. All of the... (more)
Viewed from the hillside above Tunnel 3, a westbound Santa Fe train approaches Tunnel 5 as it rolls along the high shelf at Cliff.
A westbound Santa Fe train holds at Cliff to meet an eastbound Southern Pacific train. While the Santa Fe trains climbed the grade without much visual fanfare, the SP locos were often smoke-belchi... (more)
Another Crummy Shot From Tehachapi Or, more correctly, another waycar shot from Tehachapi. After shooting an e... (more)
Amercian Freedom Train with SP 4449 and three Cotton Belt SD40-2T tunnel motors climb the Techachapi grade at Cliff, Calif. on an overcast Dec. 22, 1975 en route to display at Long Beach.
A Barstow to Richmond manifest passes through one of the lesser photographed areas of Tehachapi Pass at Cliff.
UP symbol ILBSE passes through Cliff as it heads north over Tehachapi Pass.
An eastbound Union Pacific freight climbs upgrade between Bealville and Cliff, California, on March 11, 2002. The locomotives are about to enter Tunnel 5, while the rear of the train is exiting Tu... (more)
Nearing the entrance to tunnel 5 at Cliff, BNSF 4605 leads a colorful southbound up Tehachapi Pass.
Here we see GE B40-8W 522 leading 4 screaming EMD GP60M's as they roar out of tunnel 5 at Cliff
BNSF 8057 South exits tunnel 5 at Cliff where it will meet a unit steel train lead by KCS 4807 and a UP hotshot.
