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teh4 bealville lmx away glint 8553 9509(sf30c) 5983 7051 7089.JPG
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.
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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. 
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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. 

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The same train coils down the loop
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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. 
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Through Walong and glinting away above Tunnel 10


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With the rear of its train in the foreground, a long BNSF doublestack/piggyback train heads down the spiral. 
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BNSF SD75Is 8228 and 8225 accompany C30-7 5063 on an uphill coil train at tunnel 2
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The SF 8 loco train swings down through the east end of Allard...
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... and approaches the model-railway-like Caliente curve.
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Shortly afterward, a BNSF Dash 9 heads Santa Fe 5514, a cabless SD 45-2B loco on an empty coil train. 
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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
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Three big ACs - an SD90 between a pair of AC4400s - make an unusual helper combination from what I've seen! 
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Further uphill, the train struggles uphill through Cable.
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And approaches the town of Tehachapi
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Back downhill at Caliente, an ex C&NW Dash 9 heads a train down along the creek. 
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Up at Tunnel 3, a UP train with an EMD leasing SD70M as the third unit heads uphill as the shadows lengthen.

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