A single-engine helper adds braking power to a Barstow-bound train that has just come off Tehachapi and started its run across the desert. The helper will be cut off in a couple miles at Edwards.
A heavy KCPB train loaded with coiled steel and powered by six SD40-2s, four up front and two on the rear, roars up the giant cut between Edwards and Bissell on its way to Tehachapi Pass.