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| Wish You Were Here - Volume 01 .... Up through Cajon Pass and Two days in the Tehachapi mountains ... Page Two ...... (click here to return to Page One) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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After the BNSF train was passed from Caliente, I decided to go get some lunch. I headed down to the Burger King in Tehachapi. Got some food and since the light was better for the lone engine at Summit switch, I went over for a head end photo.
I then returned to Woodford found a shady spot (sort of) and ate my lunch while waiting for the trains to start moving again. I ended up taking a nap for about 2 hours. When I woke up UP 4539 was starting to move... from that point it was one train right after another. |
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I sat out a few trains at Woodford since they were coming up right behind each other...
A UP baretable with a cyeclops SD60M on the point A BNSF trailer train which had some Automax cars on the end. |
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I moved up to the end of the dirt road that runs along Woodford. This affords a nice view of the Tehachapi Creek bridge, and got there in time to capture images of this BNSF train led by and un BNSF's Santa Fe warbonnet # 637. |
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I headed over to Keene near tunnel 9 so I could get a better photo of the CN engine that was on the last BNSF train.. I caught it on top ot the tunnel. |
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I went down to Bealville to take better advantage of the sun angle. As I got set where I wanted to take my photos, BNSF 732 showed up at Cliff and decended into the tunnel. This is the train that was stopped at Marcel for a good span of the day. |
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Up to Caliente I went to capture some more images of these two trains.. first up was BNSF 4995 rounding the curve in shadow. |
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After the last manifest train came by me, I attempted to get down to the grade crossing before they made it there so I could get on the good side of the sun but no luck. I took a photo of the UP manifest train that was given the all clear to proceed up the hill, then got back up to the overlook spot real quick to get a photo of them crawling up the steep grade.
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With the sun going down quickly, I decided it was best that I choose my sleeping spot while I could see where I was. I had visited the spot at the end of the dirt road along the Woodford siding earlier in the day, and decided that was where I wanted to stay. The nearby tree's would block the engine lights from constantly shining into my car, yet I had view of the trains coming from both directions. The first photo above is the last train I photographed before it got too dark, and the second photo was taken with only light from a train coming up the hill. That was the view out my side window.
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