Just a few miles west of reaching the apex of the grade on Beaumont Hill, an eastbound UP intermodal train passes through the rural countryside located near Hinda in San Timoteo Canyon.
With an older SD70M on the point, an eastbound UP auto train rounds the big curve west of Beaumont at Nicklin, and will soon be rolling downgrade into the low desert toward Palm Springs and Yuma.
Climbing the steady grade out of San Timoteo Canyon, an eastbound UP manifest freight has just passed the Hinda crossovers and will soon be rolling across the Colorado desert toward Yuma and point... (more)