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| A
UP drifts downhill west of Caliente in the evening light |
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| And
going away. Those grotty locos give a neat textured glint effect |
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| A
BNSF train treads carefully past the debris from a recent
derailment near tunnel 1 |
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| Helpers
in the same train head down through the Caliente horseshoe |
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| At
Sandcut, the same train rides into the sunset |
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| Aforementioned
sunset |
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| Back
at the loop |
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Thursday
morning and a BNSF south/westbound approaches Tehachapi
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| Near
Marcel |
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| The
Monolith shunt has some decent horsepower today in the form of a
very smoky SD90 |
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| A
colorful consist whizzes past with me in hot pursuit (well, as
fast as a two ton ute can pursue) |
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| Quick
enough to beat it to Marcel |
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| And
then Woodford |
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| And
then Tunnel 5. Not a great shot thanks to the sun angle, but
hey, at least it's different. |
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| And
then Bealville. This is a crappy different shot too. |
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| Oooooo.
Classic Tunnel 5 |
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| I
really screwed up the focus on this somehow, but I'm including
it just to torture you |
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| Friday
morning's crappy picfest... but after the trudge into
Allard, it's the only one with decent sun. And it has the
interesting ex CSX jobbie |
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| All
these trains keep coming from the wrong direction. Whatever
happened to the post sunrise BNSF uphill train parade? |
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| Another
downhill!!! With an illegal immigrant!! Give me an uphill damn
you |
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| Crap,
a filthy UP train, followed by this one with a cleanish mini
dash 8 on the pointy end |
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| This
train is too short for this location but I can't be bothered
hanging around here with this kind of luck |
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| Finally
a long train and it's almost clean. Actually, this is a huge
train for two locos (a fair chunk is out of sight in the Allard
horseshoe) |
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| Woohoo!!!!
An SP loco! SD70M leads anEx-DRGW-ex-SP SD50 and CSX Dash 8 |
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Better
get another shot of that. How often do I see SP locos on the
mainline these days?
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UP
locos painted in the new 'dirt' color scheme head through Cable
with their manifest
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| Still
at Cable, the UP baby dash train cops a nasty sun angle as it... |
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| ...passes
a waiting BNSF train with an interesting mix of color |
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The
cleanish intermodal heads through Cable
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| After
a three hour wait, the shadows encroach on a BNSF stack train
threading its way down Clear Creek. |
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| A
decent sized BNSF manifest strung out around Caliente |
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| And
passing
the derailment site near Tunnel 1 |
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| Saturday
morning between Woodford and the loop. |
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| And
two shots for the price of one walk. There were a few UP trains as well, but we're not going to post that filthy junk here. |
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| A
nice set of Dash 9s in need of some more contrail eradication. |
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| Grotty
loco, grotty train, grotty clouds, but a nice location with a
Yucca flower |
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| Ditto
with a cleaner loco - lead one is an AC |
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| A
wider angle than normal at Tunnel 2 |
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| I
don't normally take shots like this, but even with the sun off
the nose, I quite like these SD70s at the loop |
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After
a camera interface problem (I screwed up) with a perfect BNSF
downhill, I had to wait three more trains to get this one. I
apologize for this shot - I'm trespassing and that's why the clouds appeared.
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| A
GP60m brings up the rear of this consist in Clear Creek |
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| Quite
a nice shot again at CC. I had to wait (again) and the shadows
prevented the wide shot (again). |
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| Might
as well pop off a quickie, if you'll pardon the expression, on
the way out of Bealville. Full speed to the airport! |
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