Where the Shafter and the Lynndyl Subdivisions come back together. Or the WP and UP mains come together.
All this water will probably be dried up by summer. I'm glad to have in now. Much of this area is used for salt production. The Morton Salt Plant is near by.
UP 9031 & 6346 lead a westbound empty coal train with diesel loads behind the power.
UP 9031 & 3855 westbound with a manifest.
With a stroke of luck with a hole in the clouds, UP 9031 drops down through Bealville under challenging light conditions.
A clean UP 9031 (SD70AH) pulls a freight through the east portal of the Hermosa Tunnels on its way to Cheyenne, Wyoming.
9031 leads an Eastbound salad shooter across the Blair Sub. This train made up 1/2 of all the trains I saw in a 5 hour period along this line.