Tehachapi 7

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Friday
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After the afternoon drive up from LAX, it's straight up to the hill, where a BNSF pumpkin leads three Warbonnets past the railcam and down toward tunnel 10.
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The same train down at tunnel 2.
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And at Sandcut in the early evening sun.
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An eastbound train beside Caliente creek.
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A noisy manifest with three ageing SP units and a UP Dash-9 swing around the curve leading to tunnel 2.
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A quick blat up the hill and the same train is caught at the top end of Bealville.
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Near tunnel 3, a following stack train with an extraordinary mix of colour catches the last of the sun.
Saturday
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The tranquility of early Saturday morning at Allard is crushed by a stack train threading its way uphill from tunnel 2.  
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A pumpkin-less stack train at Bealville
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BNSF manifest exiting tunnel 10.
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A pair of clean Warbonnets head down the spiral...
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...with a pair of EMD bankers in pre-merger paint schemes bringing up the rear...
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...chases it's tail as the train at the top of the page waits at Woodford...
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...before crossing Tehachapi creek and approaching the loop...
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...and then leaving Walong behind.
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Dash-9s, another LMX Dash-8 and a cascade green SD40-2 wheel a grain train down around the loop.
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The same train and its helpers in a loop panorama.
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Spring is in the air... A pair of SD90s tread past the poppies at Tehachapi.
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A pair of eastbound stack trains near Cable crossover headed firstly by a mix of BNSF colour....
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...and followed by a set of winged UP SD70Ms.
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A colourful BNSF train heads west through Cable.
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...and passes an eastbound counterpart at Woodford.
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After the westbound clears Woodford, the helpers throttle up for the approach to the loop.
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The westbound again at the top of Bealville as it approaches tunnel 3 in the evening sun.
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The colorful consist passing fields of cows at Bena.
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A following train of articulated auto racks headed by a Dash-8 and four SD40-2s rumble towards Edison just after sunset.

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