The darkness temporarily succumbs to light, as a locomotive's headlight paints the right-of-way and adjacent hills, while the ETD brings up the rear with its signature flashing red light. The sce... (more)
With the harsh curvature of the Tehachapi Mountains crossing behind it, BNSF's Z-RICWSP works up the last few miles toward the summit on straight track, as it approaches the town of Tehachapi.
Four GEs lug a Chicago bound intermodal through Cable X-Over, as it works up the last few miles toward Tehachapi Summit.
The Z-RICWSP1-28A blasts through the s-turn at Sandcut, as it begins its journey towards the summit at Tehachapi, in the early hours of a summer night.
Same train with a wide angle.....one loco ran out of fuel and the train didnt make it all the way to the summit before losing all its momentum
The crew forgot to check fuel levels on the locos....train was doing 11 miles an hour when it went through the detector at Rowen. When the train passed me it was steadily losing speed and the head... (more)
BNSF 713 leads this eastbound pig out of tunnel 3 and past the now sealed north portal of tunnel 4.