A Roseville bound manifest blasts by the SP style target signal at MP 366.6 just south of Monolith, on Union Pacific's Mojave Sub.
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)
A loose spike at Monolith, Calif. January 1998. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com
A GE/EMD pair take this long stack train North through Monolith.
UP 5801 leads this Union Pacific mixed freight train toward the loop at Tehachapi
This Northbound is about to get held up for a bit, as the High wide detector at MP 363.8 will give them a hot box 79 axles back.
SD70ACe #8529 has the IOALB up to track speed as it rounds the broad curve east of Monolith.
The Greatest Show on Earth...the Ringling Brothers circus train heads south through the broad curve at Monolith.
Everett WA to Barstow CA manifest rolling downgrade in Monolith
Loaded steel coil train from Pittsburg CA to Kaiser rolling downgrade at Monolith.
Taken about a half hour after sunrise the ZBRLC is headed for Los Angeles. The Monolith cement plant can be seen in the background
The Lehigh Cement Plant towers over a UP SD70ACe as it switches cuts of cement hoppers at Monolith.
With the Lehigh Cement plant in the distance, this high priority z-train begins its downhill run to Mojave.
Waiting to haul cement
This Q-train passes under the high/wide load detector on the approach to Tehachapi Summit as the locomotives exhaust distorts the Lehigh Cement plant in the distance.
