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My third video from a recent visit to California.
It's a warm Sunday in October 2015, close to the village of Caliente at the foot of the west slope of Tehachapi Pass, as a long BNSF intermodal train arrives...
The railway from Bakersfield arrives along the creek on the left, then does a 180 degree U-turn as it passes through the village and starts to climb on a 2%+ gradient up the side of the hill on the right. After passing through Tunnel 1 it does another U-turn through Tunnel 2, then another one and eventually arrives at Bealville - about 1.5 miles from Caliente by road, but 5 miles by rail... (see https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir//...2831836,-118.6390148,15.01z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0 - the marker is where I recorded the video from, looking eastwards).
The village itself is out of sight over to the left after the curve.
[youtube]?v=t7EM3OAaIrg[/youtube]
(or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7EM3OAaIrg )
As a bit of 'bonus content' this is the noise of the train (out of view) as it approaches from the west - it ends where the video above starts.
A large chunk of the train in the shot below is wrapped around the village, out of sight.
The locos are 2 x ES44 + 2 x C44-9W (all GE).
The 'head and tail':
Looking west along the creek, towards Bakersfield:
It's a warm Sunday in October 2015, close to the village of Caliente at the foot of the west slope of Tehachapi Pass, as a long BNSF intermodal train arrives...
The railway from Bakersfield arrives along the creek on the left, then does a 180 degree U-turn as it passes through the village and starts to climb on a 2%+ gradient up the side of the hill on the right. After passing through Tunnel 1 it does another U-turn through Tunnel 2, then another one and eventually arrives at Bealville - about 1.5 miles from Caliente by road, but 5 miles by rail... (see https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir//...2831836,-118.6390148,15.01z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0 - the marker is where I recorded the video from, looking eastwards).
The village itself is out of sight over to the left after the curve.
[youtube]?v=t7EM3OAaIrg[/youtube]
(or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7EM3OAaIrg )
As a bit of 'bonus content' this is the noise of the train (out of view) as it approaches from the west - it ends where the video above starts.
A large chunk of the train in the shot below is wrapped around the village, out of sight.
The locos are 2 x ES44 + 2 x C44-9W (all GE).
The 'head and tail':
Looking west along the creek, towards Bakersfield:
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