The “Blitz local” switches 3 cars of coal for the huge Monolith cement plant near Tehachapi, California, on March 8, 2001. Even though it is a Union Pacific local, the three Southern Pacific SD40M-2s in Speed Lettering make it look like it’s from a slightly earlier era. Lead SD40M-2 No. 8635 is a former SD40, while the trailing units are former SD45s.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
