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General Electric Dash 9 with radiator wings outstretched is flying down Tehachapi Loop on 8/7/2004 about 6:45 PM. These are the DPU's of a northbound BNSF train at Walong.
I've always thought that the old B&W photos looked best with puffy white clouds. I think the photographers used to use a filter to emphasize them.
Here is a picture taken on 10/2/2004 at Tehachapi Loop trying to emulate that look. I think the very dirty Union Pacific locomotives even look...
One of my favorite places. I'm lucky to live close enough to be able to go up there every weekend. Lots of trains and lots of mountain railroading action.
Since spring comes early in California I went back to the first weekend in April to get some green. Here is a BNSF southbound train climbing Tehachapi Loop and can see the end of its train below crossing Tehachapi creek. This was taken on 4/3/2004.
the southbound Oakland-Willow Springs powered by BNSF1077, BNSF1035, BNSF4516, BNSF745 passes a manifest led by no. BNSF7883, BNSF7034, GMEX9001, BNSF8047, BNSF4928 at Woodford, Tehachapi, CA. 14.20Hrs
Three BNSF H1's coming up the siding at Woodford (milepost 349) on Union Pacific's Tehachapi line. Taken on 12/27/2003 with Canon Digital Rebel. They sat there all day with DPU problems!
With a little snow on the ground around tunnel 10, two BNSF ex Santa Fe red and silver war bonnets pull a roadrailer train up grade. Taken on 12/28/2003 with a Canon Digital Rebel with a Canon EF 75-300mm lens. (This is on Union Pacific's Tehachapi line in California, USA)
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