With less than an hour of sunlight remaining, the Union Pacific Long Beach to Oakland container train is at track speed near Monolith with Tehachapi summit just a couple of miles ahead.
Harsco Track Technologies rail grinder works northbound on the #2 track near Monolith, as storm clouds begin to accumulate over the Tehachapi Mountains.
With thunderstorms beginning to build over the Mojave Desert in the distance, a BNSF unit grain train nears Monolith, as it has only has a few more miles to go before reaching the summit at Tehach... (more)