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| Title: |
Eastbound Control Section Walker |
| Description: |
When BNSF put in a third track through the Cajon Pass in 2007, they created a new cross over and named it "Walker" after a former Santa Fe Railroad employee who spent much of his early career with the railroad attending the old station at Cajon. Mr. Walker was known as an expert to the railfan community and is cited in a number of publications and appears in a number of videos on the subject. Mr. Walker passed away in I believe 2007, or 2008, hence this piece of track was named after him. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2009 Upload Date: 10/29/2009 2:52:09 PM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7404(ES44DC) |
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408 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Meet at Powerline Road (F.S. Road 3N45) |
| Description: |
As Autumn comes to the desert, the shadows are getting longer and the background is greening up after the intense heat of the Summer months. Eventually we will again be able to capture images in the pass with the snowy mountains in the background. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2009 Upload Date: 10/29/2009 5:29:58 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Action |
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BNSF 7574(ES44DC) |
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357 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
JB Hunt Study - JB Hunt at Silverwood |
| Description: |
More unusual images of JB Hunt containers loaded on trains. Sometimes the confluence of the sky, some high mountains, a signal tower and a train or two can cause what appears to be a twisted view of the landscape due to the bending of the light entering a wide angle, or a short focal length lens. Here however, the look of the image results from the leaning of the train and the upward perspective of the signal tower cast against the mountainous background rather than any aberration due to the light passing trough a lens. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2009 Upload Date: 10/29/2009 3:17:32 PM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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Signal,Action |
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156 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Mile 57 on the Cajon Subdivision |
| Description: |
As Autumn comes to the desert, the shadows are getting longer and the background is greening up slightly and the Yellow Rabbit Brush blooms after the intense heat of the Summer months. Eventually this scene will be covered in snow on occasion and we will once again be able to capture images in the pass with the snowy mountains in the background. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2009 Upload Date: 10/31/2009 4:28:56 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Action |
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BNSF 972(C44-9W) |
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263 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Union Pacific in Cajon |
| Description: |
A view of an Eastbound Union Pacific stack train from the Palmdale Cut Off Track in the Cajon Pass, San Bernardino County California. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2009 Upload Date: 10/31/2009 4:19:18 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5271(AC45CCTE) |
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288 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Yellow Rabbit Brush |
| Description: |
Inspired by a fellow rail photographer, I thought I would capture an image of the late blooming wild flowers in this case, Yellow Rabbit Brush - Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus ssp. viscidiflorus near CP Walker on the BNSF Cajon Subdivision in the Cajon Pass, San Bernardino County California. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2009 Upload Date: 10/29/2009 3:32:05 PM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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Scenic,Action |
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105 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Cajon Feeder - Reduex |
| Description: |
Hill 582 located at mile marker 58.2 on the BNSF Cajon Subdivision, is fairly well known by railfans worldwide as a spot to watch trains in the Cajon Pass. On the summit of the hill amongst a clump of trees, are some benches and a number of displays and monuments to different people and things. Also located there is this bird feeder, depicted here in the afternoon sun with a BNSF stack train passing in the background. Hill 582, at mile marker 58.2 on the BNSF Cajon Subdivision, Cajon Pass, San Bernardino County California. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/2009 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 2:15:08 PM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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Action |
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154 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Coming Around the Bend |
| Description: |
An Eastbound BNSF stack train approaches mile marker 57 on a cold Winters day in the Cajon Pass. The colors of the desert flora in the Winter is evident in this image when compared to another taken in the same area in July: Link Taken near M.P. 57 on the BNSF San Cajon Subdivision Cajon Pass, San Bernardino County, California, USA. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/2009 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 2:16:47 PM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7284(ES44DC) |
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275 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Sunset at C.P. Walker |
| Description: |
In the waning moments of a cold Winter day before the sun slips behind the mountains, BNSF 7770 leads a manifest train up the hill towards Barstow California. The MOW worker on the right is attempting to free a stuck switch on Main #2 that blocked traffic for most of the day. Cajon Pass, San Bernardino County California. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/2009 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 2:13:16 PM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7770(ES44DC) |
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253 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Winter Comes to Cajon |
| Description: |
After the first snow of the year, the mountains above the pass are coated with a blanket of white. Now that the rattle snakes are all hibernating, I can break through the bush and go back to all my favorite photo spots on the hills above the tracks near C.P. Silverwood. Here a U.P. manifest train heads up the hill on the Palmdale Cutoff towards Mojave. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/2009 Upload Date: 1/17/2010 2:20:25 PM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Transit,Action |
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188 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Vanishing Point |
| Description: |
Looking Eastward toward the summit from the crossing on Main #3 of the BNSF Cajon Subdivision at Hill 582 near mile post 58.2. Cajon Pass, San Bernardino County California. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/2009 Upload Date: 2/19/2010 2:56:59 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track |
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119 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Passing Trains and the Deep Shadows of a Cajon Winter |
| Description: |
A BNSF stack train heads up the hill while a manifest train heads down (upper left hand corner). What I find interesting about this shot is that nothing came by on all four tracks for over an hour, so I decided to climb a small hill that I have not been on top of before to see what I could see. As I was part way up the hill, the Westbound train approached, then as I was hiking though the brush (there are no trails here) I heard the rumbling of the Eastbounder on the other side of the rise and sprinted the rest of the way up the hill. So this, and the crappy images of the Westbound taken into the sun are all I have to show for my impatience. I did however score some nice shots of a computer keyboard and some 12 gauge shotgun shells that I found on top of the hill. Taken near M.P. 57.2 on BNSFs Cajon Subdivision in the Cajon Pass, San Bernardino County California. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2010 Upload Date: 2/19/2010 2:19:14 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4082(C44-9W) |
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297 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A February Winters Morning |
| Description: |
An Eastbound BNSF TOFC train speeds up the Cajon Pass on Main #1 on the way to Barstow California. The view is looking Northwest towards Alray and Hill 582. Taken near M.P. 57.20 on BNSFs Cajon Subdivision in the Cajon Pass, San Bernardino County California. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2010 Upload Date: 2/19/2010 2:15:19 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7304(ES44DC) |
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255 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF #7304 at Hill 582 |
| Description: |
The flat spot on the hill to the left with the trees and the stacked stone retaining walls is a well known train watching site known as "Hill 582." The name comes from its location at mile post 58.20 on the BNSF Cajon Subdivision (the track that the train is on). Union Pacifics Palmdale Cutoff which is part of U.P.s Mojave Subdivision, is the track that is located just above the train. Here, an Eastbound BNSF piggyback train heads up the pass on a warm February morning. Cajon Pass, San Bernardino County California. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2010 Upload Date: 2/19/2010 2:11:51 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7304(ES44DC) |
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244 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Through the Canyon |
| Description: |
The head end of a Union Pacific unit train (probably a Soda Ash load from Trona) threads its way Westbound though a cut on the Palmdale Cut Off. Taken near C.P. Silverwood on the U.P. Mojave Subdivision in the Cajon Pass, County of San Bernardino California. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2010 Upload Date: 2/19/2010 2:13:09 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8452(SD70ACe) |
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262 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Crossing Summit Road |
| Description: |
A Westbound Union Pacific manifest train begins it's decent down the Cajon Pass on Main #2 after passing through C.P. Summit. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 3:03:45 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 8331(SD70ACe) |
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216 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Yellow Rabbit Bush at Summit |
| Description: |
An empty Union Pacific M.O.W. ballast train heads up the pass for another load of rock that will be dumped somewhere along the tracks down in the Los Angeles basin. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 3:05:17 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 4376(SD70M) |
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204 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Afternoon Decent |
| Description: |
A Westbound stack train descends the 3% grade on Main #3 of the Cajon Pass on its way to the harbor in Los Angeles. |
| Photo Date: |
11/24/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 3:02:30 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5166(C44-9W) |
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256 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Old School Summit Shot |
| Description: |
When a person looks at old pictures of trains moving through Control Point Summit on the former Santa Fe Cajon Subdivision, most of them were taken down on the dirt near the tracks like this one. Nowadays it seems no one wants to get out of their car and take a stroll down the hill from the highway to grab a shot like this. Ergo, most of the shots at Summit look like the ones referenced below. BNSF Cajon Subdivision at M.P. 56 Cajon Pass - San Bernardino County, California. |
| Photo Date: |
11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:15:51 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6604(ES44C4) |
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253 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Railfanning at the Powerline Road |
| Description: |
A Westbound BNSF Stack train passes a group of railfans out for a cold Saturday afternoon of train watching near CP Silverwood in the Cajon Pass. |
| Photo Date: |
11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:17:32 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6619(ES44C4) |
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291 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
By The Dawns Early Light |
| Description: |
An Eastbound stack train crests the top of the Cajon Pass at EBCS Summit, while passing a descending stack train headed for Los Angeles. BNSF Cajon Subdivision at M.P. 56 Cajon Pass - San Bernardino County, California. |
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11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:14:16 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7376(ES44DC) |
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270 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Winter Afternoon in the Pass |
| Description: |
A Westbound stack train descends the Cajon Pass on Main #3 at Forest Service Road 3N45 while a Union Pacific manifest train climbs the hill on the Palmdale Cutoff. |
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11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:42:04 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7414(ES44DC) |
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184 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Crossing Cajon Boulevard |
| Description: |
I followed this stacker down the pass from Summit and caught some good angles on it at Stein's Hill. ( Look here or Look here .) I then boogied down to Cajon Station to catch it crossing Cajon Boulevard where I almost got hit by some joker in a 4x4 trying to beat the train across the road. |
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11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:38:35 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7913(ES44DC) |
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236 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bigger than a Bread Box! |
| Description: |
What I find fascinating about railroad locomotives is just how large they really are when you get right up next to them. Here, a Westbound BNSF stack train lead by #7413 slowly negotiates the looping corner of Main #3 in front of Stein's Hill on the Santa Fe's original track through the Cajon Pass. |
| Photo Date: |
11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:34:59 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7913(ES44DC) |
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239 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rounding the Curve at Stein's Hill |
| Description: |
A Westbound stack train descends the Cajon Pass on Main #3 at Stein's Hill. |
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11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:39:40 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7913(ES44DC) |
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219 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Crossing the Powerline Road on Cold November Afternoon |
| Description: |
A Westbound pig train (TOFC) makes its way down the Cajon Pass on Main #3, here crossing U.S.F.S. Road 3N45 at MP 57.17. |
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11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:37:37 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7414(ES44DC) |
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197 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A Cold Cajon Afternoon |
| Description: |
A Westbound pig train (TOFC) slowly makes its way past the small bridge at MP 57.25 in the Cajon Pass. |
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11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:41:24 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7414(ES44DC) |
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233 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Westbound at Silverwood on a Cold Winters Afternoon |
| Description: |
A Westbound BNSF Stack train passes another going Eastbound up the hill at CP Silverwood in the Cajon Pass. |
| Photo Date: |
11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:46:08 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7920(ES44DC) |
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302 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
While Wilma Rides up Front, FRED Takes up the Rear |
| Description: |
Known as a Flashing Rear - End Device (FRED) or a End-Of-Train device (EOT) the unit can be either a simple tail light or actually transmit real time telemetry regarding the operation of the train to the Head-of-Train Device (HTD) also known as a Wilma. Here, FRED takes a ride on a Westbound BNSF stack train lead by #5050 as it goes over the precipice at Summit and descends into the Los Angeles basin. |
| Photo Date: |
11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:42:56 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5050(C44-9W) |
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244 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
"We Deliver" |
| Description: |
A Westbound unit train of dry bulk hoppers (loaded with some type of grain) crosses U.S. Forest Service Road 3N45 while descending the Cajon Pass on the former Southern Pacific Palmdale Cutoff. The shear weight of this train was evident from the squealing brakes as it passed where I was standing and the fact that there were five units up front and three as DPUs on the rear. |
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11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 3:01:34 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 5954(AC44CWCTE) |
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278 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Reflections at Summit |
| Description: |
n Westbound autorack train starts the descent down the Cajon Pass at EBCS Summit. |
| Photo Date: |
11/27/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 2:40:31 AM |
| Location: |
San Bernardino, CA |
| Author: |
El Roco Photography |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6604(ES44C4) |
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267 Comments: 0 |
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