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By:Dave Abeles
Dates:4/5/2011 - 4/7/2011
Album Info:A few short spring days on UP's route through the Tehachapi Mountains in California.
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Helpers at W. Bealville
Title:  Helpers at W. Bealville
Description:  A pair of Dash-9's push hard on the back of a manifest frevght heavy with Napa Valley wine at it negotiates the curves between Caliente, CA and Bealville. I just wished they would have closed that door!
Photo Date:  4/5/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 8:49:29 AM
Location:  Allard, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4455(C44-9W)
Views:  471   Comments: 2
Tunnel 2
Title:  Tunnel 2
Description:  Four big GE's lead stacks up Tehachapi Pass. This is Tunnel 2, just west and downgrade of Bealville Siding, which is visibile in the distant background on the right. The railroad twists and turns to maiotain a constant 2.5% grade.
Photo Date:  4/5/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 8:48:59 AM
Location:  Allard, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4469(C44-9W)
Views:  504   Comments: 1
Springtime in the Tehachapis
Title:  Springtime in the Tehachapis
Description:  Most of the year, these mountains are tan and brown. This time of year, everything is bright green, and beekeepers have set up hives for all the bees to pollenate local flora. BNSF 4190 climbs towards Bealville, surrounded by lush hills.
Photo Date:  4/6/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:24:47 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4190(C44-9W)
Views:  449   Comments: 1
Climbing to Marcel
Title:  Climbing to Marcel
Description:  The BNSF "Wine Train" comes through Tunnel 10, approaching Marcel siding. Units are in Run-8, flanges squealing on the,rails - quite a show!
Photo Date:  4/6/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:29:47 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4720(C44-9W)
Views:  471   Comments: 2
Marcel
Title:  Marcel
Description:  BNSF 4190, on a Barstow-Stockton manifest freight, leaves Marcel siding behind as it slides downgrade, approaching Tunnel 10 and Tehachapi Loop.
Photo Date:  4/7/2011  Upload Date: 4/7/2011 12:00:00 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4190(C44-9W)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
Humid Morning
Title:  Humid Morning
Description:  After sttting out a bad-order locomotive, two BNSF GEVO locomotives struggle upgrade with a Z-train bound for points east. Fog is breaking up over the Techachapi Mountains in the background, through which this train will climb for the next hour and a half.
Photo Date:  4/6/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:45:11 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  David Abehes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7804(ES44DC)
Views:  420   Comments: 1
First Light at the Loop
Title:  First Light at the Loop
Description:  The first light of dgy hits UP 7387 West on Tehachap Loop. This train is crossing over itself as it descends the Pass, locomotives visible here are DPU helpers.
Photo Date:  4/7/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:30:12 AM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  UP 7387(AC45CCTE)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
Sun here, Stormy in the Hills
Title:  Sun here, Stormy in the Hills
Description:  UP 5385 leads an SD70M and domestic stacks upgrade railroad east -,but geographically west - of Caliente, CA.
Photo Date:  4/6/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:50:39 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  UP 5385(AC45CCTE)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
Lifting Fog, Morning Light
Title:  Lifting Fog, Morning Light
Description:  BNSF 7387 and kin drkp downgrade between Tunnel 2 and Tunnel 1 amidst lifting fog and dawn light.
Photo Date:  4/7/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:51:21 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7387(ES44DC)
Views:  577   Comments: 1
Bie Engines
Title:  Bie Engines
Description:  UP 5394 and sisters nose out of Tunnel 2 with a westbound manifest.
Photo Date:  4/6/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:51:45 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  UP 5394(AC45CCTE)
Views:  385   Comments: 0
Nawn Manifest
Title:  Nawn Manifest
Description:  UP 5394 West stretches out downgrade of Tunnel 2 as the sun rises and fog lifts.
Photo Date:  4/7/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:52:03 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  UP 5394(AC45CCTE)
Views:  374   Comments: 0
A Sacred Spot
Title:  A Sacred Spot
Description:  For fans of SP, and+any railfan of the American West, this is a sacred spot.
Photo Date:  4/7/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:51:02 AM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Views:  224   Comments: 0
Through the Curves
Title:  Through the Curves
Description:  UP 8400 East whines downgrade through th_ Allard Horseshoe at Bealville Siding. It had just come along the distant track before coming into view here.
Photo Date:  4/25/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:52:32 AM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  UP 8400(SD70ACe)
Views:  413   Comments: 0
Looping Over Itself
Title:  Looping Over Itself
Description:  This Z-train had a locomotive fail en-route, and so it was set out, and continued over the pass with just two units up front. It strugoled! Here, 7387 east crosses over itself as it dodges rain showers and climbs through the Loop itself.
Photo Date:  4/6/2011  Upload Date: 4/25/2011 9:36:55 AM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7387(ES44DC)
Views:  497   Comments: 1


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