At dusk BNSF's impressive Earthworm train passes through Sandcut northbound with its usual mid- and rear-train DPU's, and will shortly be arriving Bakersfield for a crew change.
Interesting cloud formations tower above the Tehachapi mountains as Union Pacific's northbound Los Angeles to Oakland intermodal negotiates the loop at Walong with a fresh ES44 in the lead.
A few miles northeast of Mojave on a chilly winter morning finds a trio of SD70ACes powering an empty potash train bound for Trona. This is on the former Southern Pacific Jawbone Branch, now the U... (more)