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LMX Dash 8-39B 8553 and four other locos (Livingston rebuild 9509, F45 5983, and BNs 7051 & 7089) hammer out of Bealville towards tunnel 3.
Ahead at the loop, four BNSF Dash 9s creep down the spiral as the train from the previous shot waits in the background at Woodford.
The next downhill train has eight locos, with Warbonnet and blue Santa Fe, silver and pumpkin BNSF, KCS, and BN green represented. Widebody SDF40-2 is the last loco of the consist, seen here approaching tunnel 10.
The same train coils down the loop
The LMX led train finally gets the light to continue it's ascent and is soon swinging around the bridge at the fifth Tehachapi Creek crossing as it approaches the loop.
Through Walong and glinting away above Tunnel 10
With the rear of its train in the foreground, a long BNSF doublestack/piggyback train heads down the spiral.
BNSF SD75Is 8228 and 8225 accompany C30-7 5063 on an uphill coil train at tunnel 2
The SF 8 loco train swings down through the east end of Allard...
... and approaches the model-railway-like Caliente curve.
Shortly afterward, a BNSF Dash 9 heads Santa Fe 5514, a cabless SD 45-2B loco on an empty coil train.
A long nose Santa Fe SD40-2 leads a general manifest train up out of Caliente. Three yellow UP helpers cut in mid-train can be seen above the second engine
Three big ACs - an SD90 between a pair of AC4400s - make an unusual helper combination from what I've seen!
Further uphill, the train struggles uphill through Cable.
And approaches the town of Tehachapi
Back downhill at Caliente, an ex C&NW Dash 9 heads a train down along the creek.
Up at Tunnel 3, a UP train with an EMD leasing SD70M as the third unit heads uphill as the shadows lengthen.
With the Monolith cement plant as a backdrop, triple pumpkins coast towards Tehachapi and the grade down the hill. |