Coming out of the loop this southbound continues to Tehacahpi.
A southbound comes out of Caliente along the grade to tunnel #2.
11:12pm, 30 second exposure. A northbound BNSF approaches tunnel #10 and the loop.
A quick engine swapout on a dead/underpowered (UP) train at Bealville.
On their maiden voyage west, BNSF 7751 leads two other GEVO's sporting BNSF's new corporate logo downgrade into Caliente with a hot UPS trailer train bound for northern California.
With part of its train passing down below, BNSF 4517 south pops out of Tunnel 5 at the north end of Cliff siding.
Easily one of the main reasons why SP's and now UP's locomotives are so filthy... the one and only Tunnel 5!
Leading a southbound manifest, UP 4319 and company send exhaust skyward as they exit Tunnel 5 in the Tehachapi Mountains.
After rolling by northbound traffic, BNSF 5424 departs the siding at Caliente for the climb across the Tehachapis on an overcast day in January, 2005.
The searchlight signals atop the classic SP cantilever at Sandcut pierce through the evening fog as a freight up ahead awaits an approaching northbound. A busy night on the Mojave Subdivision!
Making decent time out of Bakersfield, UP 4290 leads the hot Brooklyn trailers, symboled KBRLC, through the Tehachapi Mountains at Tunnel 2.
BNSF Dash 8 40CW 837 leads a westbound Birmingham, Alabama to Pittsburg, California steel train through Woodford, CA
Freshly repainted BNSF GP 60M #140 is bad-ordered at Caliente, CA 09/096
ATSF 533 leads the Expedited 991 train upgrade near Tunnel 2 very slowly due to a slow order
