Another spectacular sunset with no train

A BNSF 'Manifest' heads for the Tehachapi Mountains

At dusk BNSF 4749 passes the signal bridge as two trains are headed out of Bakersfield in the distance

After a derailment at Caliente, this very late z train is the first train to get a green signal, notice the solid warbonnet consist in the distant???

I have spent several years(2 times a year when the sun sets over or near the rails) trying to get this shot with a train...still no luck

Another stormy day and Sandcut

Another storm light shot and Sandcut, CA

UP 5748 is one of two DPU's on the rear of a southbound manifest, stopped at Sandcut at the north end of the Tehachapi pass.

A WB SP train with a Cotton Belt "snoot" tunnel motor on the point climbs up the short grade at Sandcut. Note the MU cable draped over the Gyralite! K64, Minolta SRT 101, Rokkor 50mm f1.7

Kodachrome SD45T-2 9318 leads the empty Oil Cans at Sandcut on their return trip to Saco to be reloaded.

BNSF 4464 waits at Sandcut for 2 BNSF Westbounds.

Freshly painted SD35 6916 leads a small work train of creosoted ties down the grade at Sandcut toward Bena.

Two sets of four U36Cs power opposing Santa Fe trains at Sandcut.

At dusk, a Santa Fe westbound approaches Sandcut with headlights glaring, while beyond the subtle hues of the mountains become more obvious than during bright daylight.

The Valley-Mountain dispatcher has a Santa Fe eastbound cross over to No. 1 track to go around an SP west man that has died on the Law on No. 2.