Nearing the top of the grade, the Wimmer special approaches Highway 202 and downtown Tehachapi where a brief station stop will be made to disembark several passengers.
The Wimmer special continues the uphill climb at the Tehachapi Loop with ex-SP office car Sunset coupled behind the UP 6936.
Sun tries to break through the cloud cover at Woodford as the Wimmer special works its way south on the UP's Mojave Sub.
Climbing higher into the Tehachapi mountains, UP 6936 heads into Tunnel 3 just around the bend from the south switch at Bealville.
Despite its long wheelbase, the big Centennial takes the sharp curve into Tunnel 2 with ease as it powers the Wimmer Engineering special across the Tehachapi mountains.
Under gloomy skies in the Tehachapi mountains, the Wimmer special approaches a work site at Ilmon on the UP's Mojave Sub.
Passing Slater on the UP's Fresno Sub, the Wimmer Engineering special nears Bakersfield where the train will change crews before heading into the Tehachapi mountains.
Handling a Bill Wimmer Engineering special, UP 6936 has the inspection train moving along at track speed as it passes the south switch Delfar on the UP's Fresno Sub.
UP 6936 leads a westbound business train out of rock tunnel 25 at Rich Bar, deep in the heart of the Feather River Canyon.
Exiting Tunnel 25, the 6936 and its train approach Rich Bar in the Feather River Canyon.
The sole operable Centennial leads a passenger special across the historic Keddie trestle.
11 cars behind the Centennial caught rolling at track speed between Mojave and Palmdale CA.
On a typically frigid Ferbruary morning, WC 6935, BNSF 794 and WC 6936 lead CN train 148 eastbound under the block signals at Paris Jct., Ontario. In less than five hours, BNSF 794 would pass here... (more)
with UP 6946 and UP 6936 and the latter was doing all of the work.
