The pages about Tehachapi have gone down
very well. So much so that I have had requests for more pictures. So
here are some more shots from the day that didn't make the final cut in
the interests of telling the story of the day. Thanks everyone for
taking an interest
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First up a closer
view of the 5 loco's on the train I was to chase up the hill waiting to
be given the all clear
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This then is No. 739
a loco I would see only a few weeks later all the way over in Minnesota
in Elk River
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First train down the
hill was this three unit lash up. I can still hear the breaks
squeaking, squealing and hissing to this day...
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This warbonnet GP60
grabbed my attention as everything else I was seeing up to that point
was in the heritage livery. In my inexperience I believed that the
warbonnet scheme was history and they would soon all be gone so I
grabbed the picture for posterity. Now of course I know that I'll still
be seeing them for years to come.
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Here we have yet another C-44
and look! Its had its aircon cover replaced with one from a warbonnet
liveried loco. Now I notice this I see it quite regularly
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This clean C-44 looks quite
beautiful as she rounds the curve gleaming in the sunlight
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This SD40 too, looks
quite nice in the Heritage livery lit by the sun
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This Norfolk Southern
unit. A D9-40C was a very surprising sight at the foot of the
California mountains.
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