Uncle Pete could probably sell the videos off these things to make a little extra cash.
Crossing Tehachapi creek at the south end of Woodford siding on a pleasant fall afternoon.
The dynamic brake resistors are throwing off a lot of heat as these two DPU locomotive's traction motors work to restrain the descent at Woodford.
CSX 7800 and BNSF 4526 are the DPU power on this train descending Tehachapi at Tunnel 10. The front end of the train is on the loop.
Dirty, just like UP likes to run them. I'm not sure what they did with the center section of cowling; it was spotless. Perhaps a fire necessitated a change out, but they didn't even clean the re... (more)
Once the pride of the Santa Fe, this old war horse is showing its age and the effects of over a decade of service in the desert.
Southbound / Eastbound at Keene along the North end of Woodford siding.
The BNSF 4432 leads an interesting consist down the west slope of the Tehachapis, approaching Woodford.
A freshly painted F45 leads this eastbound consist at Woodford on a warm Spring morning in 1988.
Merger-painted SD45 #5355 leads seven other units downgrade with a COFC train. This crossing of Tehachapi Creek is at the east end of Woodford siding.
A Los Angeles-bound lumber drag grinds uphill through Woodford.
BNSF 7624 ES44DC slowely crawls down the inside loop of the famous "Tehachapi Loop" with its dynamic brakes screaming and its train brakes squeeling.
BNSF 4714 has the main at the south end of Woodford as it descends the Tehachapi Mountains past BNSF 5456.
