 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.
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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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