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  1. Thinking About Rest

    Thinking About Rest

    The engineer of this northward grainer has just used BNSF 5412 (GE Dash 9-44CW) and three other units to move 400,000 bushels of wheat through Ilmon, California and is running along Caliente Creek. He has put the Tehachapis behind and can start thinking about going on rest in Bakersfield 20...
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • bnsf ca pass tehachapi
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    • Category: Western United States
  2. Searchlights at Bena CA

    Searchlights at Bena CA

    The BNSF 4570 (GE Dash 9-44CW) leads a southbound mixed manifest past the searchlight signals just west of Bena, California last March 8. When I was a young buff all of the signals in my world were in the searchlight style. Slowly modern signals are replacing searchlight signals, they are going...
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • bena bnsf ca
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States
  3. What Kind of Power?

    What Kind of Power?

    The power on this set of UP locomotives at Monolith, California depend on the judgment of the engineer. The wind mills on Pajuela Peak depend on the random action of the wind.
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • ca monolith pass tehachapi up
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States
  4. Silent Sentinel of Safety I

    Silent Sentinel of Safety I

    BNSF 4932 (GE Dash 9-44CW) splits the block signals at Monolith, CA on March 7, 2010. In a moment the train will have moved on and the only sound will be traffic on the highway across the meadow.
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • bnsf ca monolith pass tehachapi
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States
  5. Big Sky over the Tehachapi Valley

    Big Sky over the Tehachapi Valley

    An southbound BNSF Double Stack leaves Monolith, CA behind on its way to Barstow last March 7. Hopefully the crew is enjoying this fine spring afternoon and anticipating some time off in Barstow.
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • bnsf ca monolith
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Western United States
  6. Headed for Home

    Headed for Home

    The engineer on the BNSF 5258 (GE Dash 9-44CW) with seven units and a mixed manifest just north of Mojave, California is probably thinking about getting through town and on to BNSF rails at South Mojave. After his left turn onto BNSF rails its less than 70 miles to home.
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • Category: Western United States
  7. Building America

    Building America

    A General Electric ES44AC idles in the Mojave, CA yard on March 7, 2010 waiting for a call on the turn over to the cement plant a Monolith, CA. The conductor may be wondering how long the work will last with the collapse of construction in California and Nevada.
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • ca mojave up
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    • Category: Western United States
  8. Into the Desert

    Into the Desert

    A train of westbound BNSF double stacks rolls into Cameron, California on March 7, 2010. These containers are leaving the Tehachapis and Northern California behind for the Mojave Desert and the mid-west. The crew on the BNSF 4314 (GE Dash 9-44CW) may be looking forward to marking off at...
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • bnsf ca cameron
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    • Category: Western United States
  9. March Comes in Like a Lion

    March Comes in Like a Lion

    BNSF 4559 with a train of steel coils has been setting at Summit, California for four hours. On this lovely morning last March 9 a ground blizzard has closed Tehachapi Pass to the north while high winds have halted operations across the Mojave Desert between Mojave and Barstow.
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • bnsf ca tehachapi
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Creative Photos
  10. Cracks

    Cracks

    It has been two generations since the last ATSF passenger train stopped at Barstow, California.
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • barstow bnsf ca
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    • Category: Buildings and Structures
  11. Wall of Trains

    Wall of Trains

    The trainmen handling these trains through Pomona, California are handling a moving wall measuring 15 by say 9,000. Dedicated trains operating between origin and destination without enroute processing present a view of large cars all of the same height and car type. An eastbound double stack...
    • Bob Wilcox
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    • ca pomona up
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    • Category: Western United States
  12. KCS 4705 in Tehachapi

    KCS 4705 in Tehachapi

    Here is my grab shot of KCS 4705 in Tehachapi. I will say I thought these grab shots were going to be the only shots I would get of this train. I was thrilled when a friend of mine who lives near the tracks called me and told me that this train just went past.
    • warrenroot
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    • 4705 ca es44ac kcs tehachapi
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    • Category: Western United States
  13. BNSF 7417

    BNSF 7417

    Within 15 minutes after BNSF 4920 passed, BNSF 7417 leads a domestic intermodal. This train started out as a stack train, then changed into a TOFC. There were even Roadrailers on flatcars on this train.
    • warrenroot
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    • 7417 bealville bnsf ca es44dc
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    • Category: Western United States
  14. BNSF 4920

    BNSF 4920

    C44-9W 4920 leads a domestic double stack train though Bealville, CA. This engineer was very railfan friendly, giving a wave to all the railfans in the area. He also gave a friendly horn honk to some railfans on a hill about 150 yards beyond the train (before he got to where I was).
    • warrenroot
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    • 4920 bealville bnsf c44-9w ca
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    • Category: Western United States
  15. BC Rail C40-8M at Tehachapi

    BC Rail C40-8M at Tehachapi

    I was on a trip this week, and was pacing a train as I was riding along Highway 58 over Tehachapi Pass. This locomotive was the third on the train. This grab shot was from the car as the train was rolling through the town of Tehachapi, CA.
    • warrenroot
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    • 4621 bc_rail c40-8m ca tehachapi
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    • Category: Western United States
  16. UP 4552

    UP 4552

    The Union Pacific 4552 leads this trio of non-flagged, non-flared SD70M's on a piggyback train at the Tehachapi Loop as seen from the Historical Marker on Woodford Tehachapi Road. The locomtives are UP 4552, UP 4651, and UP 4247.
    • warrenroot
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    • 4552 ca loop sd70m tehachapi up
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Western United States
  17. BNSF 560 leads the Cadiz Local out of Ludlow, CA

    BNSF 560 leads the Cadiz Local out of Ludlow, CA

    BNSF 560 leads a mix of other locos downgrade at Ludlow, CA. 09-17-07.
    • PNWhogger
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    • 560 bnsf ca cadiz local ludlow
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Western United States
  18. Dunsmuir caboose

    Dunsmuir caboose

    An exx-NP ex-BN caboose used for a city bill board in Dunsmuir CA
    • Greg Elems
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    • bn ca caboose dunsmuir in np
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Caboose
  19. Highball Pasadena!

    Highball Pasadena!

    Cab ride from Los Angeles to San Bernardino in GP35u #2905 which was leading a nine unit cabhop via the 2nd District in 1984. This is an image of the Pasadena depot while passing through town.
    • Huskerherb
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    • ca cabride fe pasadena santa
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Western United States
  20. Merced, CA 2-2003

    Merced, CA 2-2003

    Merced Amtrak Station in Feb of 2003.
    • tbedwell
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    • ca merced
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Buildings and Structures


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