Awaiting its next call to duty, an ex-SP GP40-2 rests between assignments on a feed mill spur located off the UP Fresno Sub in the southern San Joaquin valley.
A short UP intermodal train from Los Angeles to Lathrop makes easy work of the descending grade as it passes through Woodford in the Tehachapi mountains.
With the Tehachapi mountains nearly behind it, a northbound BNSF manifest featuring quite an assortment of motive power coasts through Illmon located between Caliente and Bena. A big thanks to fel... (more)
A hot summer afternoon in the Tehachapi mountains finds a southbound UP manifest rounding the curve into Tunnel 2 as it digs into the hard grade on the climb toward the summit.
Passing the outskirts of Kingman on the BNSF Seligman Subdivision, a westbound piggyback train with not one double stack in sight rolls downgrade into town.