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By:Rick Erben
Dates:4/7/2010 - 4/14/2010
Album Info:Along BNSF & UP - New Mexico, Arizona and California
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Heading in
Title:  Heading in
Description:  UP 8247 takes the siding at Bealville as the rear of the train and DPU power is visible on the incline at the north end of Cliff siding, about to enter Tunnel No. 5.
Photo Date:  4/10/2010  Upload Date: 4/22/2010 2:00:20 PM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8247(SD9043MAC)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
UP 8247
Title:  UP 8247
Description:  A northbound manifest at Bealville with its rear-end power just being swallowed by Tunnel No.5.
Photo Date:  4/10/2010  Upload Date: 4/22/2010 2:04:39 PM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8247(SD9043MAC) UP 4417(SD70M) UP 4679(SD70M)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
A coil train coiling through the curves
Title:  A coil train coiling through the curves
Description:  The next frame caught all of the power past the A block but that glare on the windsheild rapidly became a brilliant flash.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:23:41 AM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7452(ES44DC) UP 5724(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7652(ES44DC)
Views:  386   Comments: 1
In the right place at the right time
Title:  In the right place at the right time
Description:  As daunting for photography as cloudy days are, the right opportunity presents dramatic potentials.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:26:32 AM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7452(ES44DC) UP 5724(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7652(ES44DC)
Views:  357   Comments: 1
Barbed wire
Title:  Barbed wire
Description:  I know why ranchers were irate about barbed wire in the olden days. Im irate about it now! Barbed wire pretty well inhibits access to a good view of the north portal of Tunnel No.9. BNSF 7462 has left Woodford and is rolling through the loop and a coiled steel train slowly moves through Walong siding in the opposite direction.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:09:10 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
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Views:  79   Comments: 0
The lull subsides
Title:  The lull subsides
Description:  This grain empty drove into Woodford and stopped just after 4PM, signalling an end to a lengthy midday void in activity.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:44:29 AM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7462(ES44DC) BNSF 7486(ES44DC) BNSF 4392(C44-9W)
Views:  392   Comments: 1
Second of three
Title:  Second of three
Description:  BNSF 7570 is the second of three intermodals in a pack
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:59:19 AM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7570(ES44DC) BNSF 4486(C44-9W) BNSF 5402(C44-9W)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
BNSF 7696
Title:  BNSF 7696
Description:  A northbound BNSF intermodal comes cooking through Woodford
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:57:09 AM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7696(ES44DC) BNSF 7646(ES44DC) BNSF 5101(C44-9W) BNSF 7254(ES44DC)
Views:  577   Comments: 0
Chow Time
Title:  Chow Time
Description:  A dearth in railroad activity afforded the opportunity to enjoy an excellent breakfast at the Keene Cafe.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:30:07 AM
Location:  Keene, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories: 
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
Gonna Go
Title:  Gonna Go
Description:  That clear searchlight indication on the intermediate between Walong and Woodford tells me the steel train is gonna go next.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:19:17 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  74   Comments: 0
An iconic logo
Title:  An iconic logo
Description:  SP gondola on UP 5407
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:23:30 AM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  39   Comments: 0
UP 4528
Title:  UP 4528
Description:  After this guy came through the loop around 10:30 in the morning, there wasnt any action (but for the wind) until four in the afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:37:00 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4528(SD70M) UP 9588(C44-9W)
Views:  404   Comments: 0
Bringing up the tail
Title:  Bringing up the tail
Description:  DPUs on UP5449 North whine past in dynamic.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 12:00:42 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5399(AC45CCTE) UP 5494(AC45CCTE)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
Sunday blues
Title:  Sunday blues
Description:  April 11 was cool and overcast with a forecast of rain and even snow at higher elevations moving into the area amidst strong winds. The trains roll whatever the weather and UP 5407 worked upgrade at Bealville just after eight oclock in the morning.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:01:35 AM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5407(AC45CCTE) UP 5390(AC45CCTE) UP 5577(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  403   Comments: 0
An opportunity, of a sort,
Title:  An opportunity, of a sort,
Description:  The sun prevents a shot at this angle in the morning and thus the overcast skies presented an opportunity to illustrate the dramatic ascent before that rack came into frame. UP 5407 is strung out through Bealville, Tunnel Nos. 3 and 5 and the north end of Cliff siding.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:15:31 AM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5407(AC45CCTE)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
UP 5449 sneaks up on me
Title:  UP 5449 sneaks up on me
Description:  This one came gliding down the mountain just as I returned to Walong.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:56:34 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5449(AC45CCTE) UP 8013(SD9043MAC)
Views:  275   Comments: 0
A manifest in disguise
Title:  A manifest in disguise
Description:  I thought it was another same-ol intermodal when it poked its nose around the corner, but was delighted to discover it was a manifest rolling my way.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:58:59 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5449(AC45CCTE) UP 8013(SD9043MAC)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
The clouds part for the 5458
Title:  The clouds part for the 5458
Description:  A brief ray of sunlight casts its benign presence above UP 5458 following two BNSF intermodals north through Woodford.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:01:44 AM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5458(AC45CCTE)
Views:  187   Comments: 1
Parting shot
Title:  Parting shot
Description:  The parting shot for my visit to Tehachapi Pass this year as UP 5449s DPU power descends through the loop.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 12:02:16 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5494(AC45CCTE) UP 5399(AC45CCTE)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
Change of venue
Title:  Change of venue
Description:  A strong front moved through during the evening and night with snow in higher elevations. All of the trains that didnt show during the daytime on Sunday suddenly started running after dark. I am sure we all have sung that lamentable tune. I moved down to Cajon for awhile on Monday and found this fellow preparing to head down the "steep" track westward.
Photo Date:  4/12/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:31:13 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7255(ES44DC)
Views:  303   Comments: 0
Color coordinated
Title:  Color coordinated
Description:  BNSF 7522 heads through Summit with a color-coordinated block of containers.
Photo Date:  4/12/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:48:15 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7522(ES44DC)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
Onto the lesser grade
Title:  Onto the lesser grade
Description:  BNSF 7722 crosses onto the middle track to avoid the 3% grade of the south track.
Photo Date:  4/12/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:44:43 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7722(ES44DC) BNSF 7755(ES44DC) BNSF 7761(ES44DC)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
In the cut
Title:  In the cut
Description:  BNSF 7731 brings an eastbound manifest into Summit
Photo Date:  4/12/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:34:27 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7731(ES44DC) BNSF 7707(ES44DC) BNSF 7711(ES44DC)
Views:  340   Comments: 0
Summit Meeting
Title:  Summit Meeting
Description:  BNSF 7731 has crested Cajon Pass while BNSF 4043 in the distance preprares to descend the grade.
Photo Date:  4/12/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:37:31 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  72   Comments: 0
GTW 127109
Title:  GTW 127109
Description:  On BNSF 7731 East at Cajon Pass
Photo Date:  4/12/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:41:38 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  91   Comments: 0
ICG 680070
Title:  ICG 680070
Description:  On BNSF 7731 East at Cajon Pass
Photo Date:  4/12/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:40:23 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  174   Comments: 0
And oh, by the way
Title:  And oh, by the way
Description:  UP makes an appearance on Cajon Pass, using the Palmdale Cut-off enroute to Mojave and beyond.
Photo Date:  4/12/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:58:12 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5353(AC45CCTE) UP 3884(SD70M) UP 8526(SD70ACe)
Views:  429   Comments: 0
Horse Shoe Cafe
Title:  Horse Shoe Cafe
Description:  And now for a genuine, delicious roast beef dinner with real mashed potatos.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:24:26 PM
Location:  Benson, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories: 
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Views:  107   Comments: 1
Still Life with Searchlight-II
Title:  Still Life with Searchlight-II
Description:  Westward A Block at East Picacho, AZ
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 12:08:34 PM
Location:  Picacho, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  109   Comments: 0
Still Life with Searchlights-III
Title:  Still Life with Searchlights-III
Description:  The tall and the short of it at East Naviska
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 12:22:38 PM
Location:  Naviska, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  66   Comments: 0
Still Life with Searchlight-I
Title:  Still Life with Searchlight-I
Description:  Westward A Block at East Toltec, AZ
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 12:07:31 PM
Location:  Toltec, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  60   Comments: 0
Phoenix Local
Title:  Phoenix Local
Description:  UP 507 comes off the Phoenix line at Picacho, AZ with a short block of cars for Tucson Yard.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 11:02:36 AM
Location:  Picacho, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 507(GP38-2) UP 1400(GP40-2)
Views:  711   Comments: 3
Confirmation at Cienega Creek
Title:  Confirmation at Cienega Creek
Description:  After the eastbound passed, I found a spot on a hillside where I could watch it slowly coil its way through the desert landscape and, with luck, spy any westbounds approaching. I suppose a scanner would be wise, but after 40+ years of using and monitoring the radio Id just as soon listen to the birds. Well, I thought I was seeing the eastbound consist moving away off in the distance, and then noticed it was a westbound. So I scrambled down the hill and was blessed with a nice afternoon manifest.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:18:11 PM
Location:  Cienega Creek, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7649(AC45CCTE) UP 4227(SD70M)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Make my day
Title:  Make my day
Description:  UP 7649, the lone westbound until after dark, makes the journey worthwhile.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:22:19 PM
Location:  Cienega Creek, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7649(AC45CCTE) UP 4227(SD70M)
Views:  275   Comments: 1
Not long for this world
Title:  Not long for this world
Description:  Extensive grading has been done for the second mainline west of Tucson, and you know what that spells for the classic searchlights. UP 7666 crusies through East Picacho at track speed.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 11:23:02 AM
Location:  Picacho, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7666(AC45CCTE) UP 8528(SD70ACe)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
Never on Tuesday
Title:  Never on Tuesday
Description:  It is generally the slowest day of the week mid-continent (good for Maintenance of Way) and never an ideal time to be trackside. Time passed and the sun was lining itself up with the rails when UP 7698 finally showed, but that cantilever was the object.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 11:17:47 AM
Location:  Picacho, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7698(AC45CCTE) UP 4858(SD70M)
Views:  266   Comments: 0
In the middle
Title:  In the middle
Description:  UP 7828 amidst the double-stacks of a fast moving intermodal outfit at the east end of Naviska siding.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 12:29:00 PM
Location:  Naviska, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7828(AC45CCTE)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
As good as it gets?
Title:  As good as it gets?
Description:  Ahhh, the Tuesday syndrome cast a pall upon rail activity into the afternoon. Finally an eastbound manifest passed on the lower track, beneath the impressive railroad span and concrete highway bridge. Ideally, of course, this is a morning angle.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:13:00 PM
Location:  Cienega Creek, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8618(SD70ACe)
Views:  193   Comments: 0
Coming on down
Title:  Coming on down
Description:  BNSF 4088 glides downgrade between Kayser and Sholle as storm clouds brew above the plains.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:50:00 PM
Location:  Scholle, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4088(C44-9W) BNSF 7799(ES44DC)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
From out of Abo Canyon
Title:  From out of Abo Canyon
Description:  BNSF 4158 has ethanol empties in the modern day equivalent to the oil trains of WWII when sea transportation of oil was risky with U-Boats harassing the shorelines. It appears that fancy new mainline will knock out some of the kinks in this bottleneck area.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:44:41 PM
Location:  Scholle, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4158(C44-9W) BNSF 5253(C44-9W)
Views:  317   Comments: 1
Train Train
Title:  Train Train
Description:  After the dearth of the desert (Tuesday lull) it was good to be amidst more or less steady activity. I had driven half the night up through the Mogollons, inhabited mostly by lots of elk, and was now back along the old AT&SF. Eastbound auto racks approach Kayser.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:24:54 PM
Location:  Scholle, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4814(C44-9W) BNSF 4478(C44-9W)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
An elusive Warbonnet
Title:  An elusive Warbonnet
Description:  The only relatively clean warbonnet leader I caught in over a week came out of the distance on the plains east of Willard.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:37:11 PM
Location:  Lucy, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 720(C44-9W) BNSF 5277(C44-9W) BNSF 4383(C44-9W)
Views:  408   Comments: 0
The majesty of the sky
Title:  The majesty of the sky
Description:  This is perhaps my favorite shot of the trip - BNSF 7214 dropping downgrade with those impressive nimbo-cumulus clouds overhead (snow fell on the high plains further to the northeast). Of course, it is a manifest.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:05:24 PM
Location:  Scholle, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7214(ES44DC)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
Looking right atcha
Title:  Looking right atcha
Description:  BNSF 7214 passes my afternoon hangout.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:06:44 PM
Location:  Scholle, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7214(ES44DC)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
BNSF 7255 redux
Title:  BNSF 7255 redux
Description:  I met this power set westbound at Cajon Pass Monday afternoon, and here it is returning east on Wednesday.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:58:29 PM
Location:  Scholle, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7255(ES44DC) BNSF 5265(C44-9W) BNSF 7563(ES44DC)
Views:  547   Comments: 0
Orange orange
Title:  Orange orange
Description:  The ES44s seem to have taken over the Transcon so that the occasional interspersion of a warbonnet, a blue and yellow or much else now appears rare indeed. Even the heritage green trim seems to be disappearing.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:06:15 PM
Location:  Scholle, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7439(ES44DC) BNSF 5161(C44-9W) BNSF 5079(C44-9W) BNSF 7355(ES44DC) BNSF 5212(C44-9W)
Views:  1017   Comments: 3
Pachyderm style at Kayser
Title:  Pachyderm style at Kayser
Description:  The red earth of the landscape predominates in this scene with BNSF 7457 West.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:38:17 PM
Location:  Scholle, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7457(ES44DC) BNSF 7491(ES44DC) BNSF 5040(C44-9W)
Views:  408   Comments: 0
My cup of tea
Title:  My cup of tea
Description:  Sometimes that "perfect" angle is elusive and is that is ones primary goal, he or she must move with the sun. For some of us, I suspect, a particular spot may be more rewarding, regardless of sun angle and that constitutes perfection. Peace, solitude & trains.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:48:10 PM
Location:  Scholle, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7457(ES44DC) BNSF 7491(ES44DC) BNSF 5040(C44-9W)
Views:  394   Comments: 0
No contest
Title:  No contest
Description:  I turned around and tried to overtake this westbound further down the hill, but he was flying low and long gone.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:33:41 PM
Location:  Mountainair, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7537(ES44DC) BNSF 5203(C44-9W) BNSF 4084(C44-9W) BNSF 4171(C44-9W)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
The sky is no limit
Title:  The sky is no limit
Description:  The sky is like the inland ocean of the West; dwarfing even mountains with its depth and magnitude. BNSF 7608 sails downgrade between Abo and Kayser.
Photo Date:  4/14/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:18:51 PM
Location:  Abo, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7608(ES44DC) BNSF 7805(ES44DC) BNSF 5162(C44-9W)
Views:  398   Comments: 0


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