Looking down on the hills, the huge West Colton to Roseville California manifest glides down the 2% grade of Tehachapi threading through tunnels 1 and 2. The early morning light facing straight Ea... (more)
As the sun starts to set, UP 8708 leads the MNYRO (freight from North Yard, CO to Roper Yard, UT) through Coal Creek Canyon on the UP Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.
The ANPMI meets Amtrak Train 6, the eastbound California Zephyr at Hafed, Nevada on a crisp, but nice, March afternoon.
It had ran out of fuel, said the engineer, then the second unit an SD70, fell off line, and out of fuel, while I was standing there.
I stopped to take some photo's, and the engineer said "You can have it, it aint got a drop of fuel in it" It had stopped running, and they got a crew bus, and left.