The Northbound starlight has some patriotic flare with the addition of the Veterans Unit, AMTK 42.
The Portland Cement company's massive plant outside Tehachapi. The plant is located onto of a massive limestone deposit and has been in use since the building of the LA Aqueduct.
A GEVO leads an empty well car train up the Tehachapi Mountains
Some GE power brings up the year of a manifest approached Bakersfield. The soon to be dismantled cantilever signal bridge at Sandcut can be seen in the background.
Another train leaves Mojave and into the Tehachapi mountains.
Power sits in the Mojave yard as the sun sets.
A Southbound stack train enters Tehachapi after tackling a loop and passes and auto train.
A Northbound auto train navigates its way down the Tehachapi mountain. This train passes the Caesar Chavez center in Keene with some Santa Fe power, including a Dash-8 C40-8W
A work train holds the siding south of town.
Empty bar tables that have been combined with light power from Milpitas make an impressive consist for a rather dormant coastline. Fall foliage is starting to reveal it's self as this consist wait... (more)
With Islay hill providing a strong background, the southbound Coast Starlight splits the fields of the Edna Valley.
A UP business train makes its way up to Oakland.
The southbound starlight passes a Union Pacific business special aboard the former Southern Pacific Stanford.
A silver tail brings up the end of the coast starlight. These former California Zephyr cars have been spared from the scuppers torch and are available to charter.
Looking a little beat up, the coast starlight charges north with five private cars from the Santa Fe, Rio Grande, and the California Zephyr .
