With the cool of the evening settling in over the Tehachapi mountains the normality of a Friday evening in downtown Tehachapi is greeted by the roar of eastbound BNSF tonnage, pulling the grade th... (more)
A trademark of Tehachapi's eastern slope, the old Southern Pacific era iron frame signal bridge at MP 377 frames a westbound BNSF double stack train as it crawls out of the desert and into the Teh... (more)
Over 15 years after the shut down of the Saluda Grade, the old signals at Melrose are lit once again, this time by a spotlight placed inside the head, not the bulbs the signal was birthed with.
For a peso or two (5 cents), these enterprising young men will push you the last mile to your village on one of these homemade rail carts.
This is however a busy commuter line with trains ever... (more)