The 2nd empty crude train in a row crosses Java Creek Trestle, climbing the west side of Marias Pass. The engine hood was replaced with an older Heritage II painted one.
2 BNSF DPUs bring up the rear of a north bound manifest as it slowly drifts by a holding BNSF south bound, down and out of Caliente and into the canyons just west of town.
On a wet, misty winter morning, in the highly saturated lower Tehachapi foothills, a north bound BNSF intermodal drifts down the steep grade between tunnels 1 and 2, as the rear portion of the tra... (more)