| We next move up around the tunnel 5 area just ahead of this UP train climbing upgrade. |
| I run down the hillside to grab a shot of the DPU's heading into the tunnel. |
| Next, a westbound BNSF train comes downgrade out of tunnel 5. |
| Never satisfied with sitting in the same place (thank God), we move below tunnel 1, which also happens to overlook the little village of Caliente. BNSF 4447 leads another westbound past our location twice, once at our elevation, and again about a hundred feet down. |
| the midtrain DPU's pass thru the same location. |
| The entire area between Caliente and Tehachapi is utilized for rural farmland grazing. To see a lone cow grazing on the top of a mountain was not uncommon. BNSF 4486 has many years before being put to pasture, as it drifts along the outside edge of the loop. |
| BNSF 4486 passes over the lower bridge at Walong. We then decide to move to the crossing at Bealville for a second catch of this train. |
| As 4486 drifts out of tunnel 1, we set up to shoot the westbound after it passes around the horseshoe curve and through Caliente. |
| 4486 continues its downward decent towards Bakersfield. |
| A pair of UP SD40-2's finish switching a winery, and leave a suburb of Bakersfield as they head for downtown and the setting sun. So endeth day two in the Tehachapi Mountains. |
| ...And day three begins with a roster shot of an Amtrak California F59 sitting outside of the Bakersfield station. |
| A unique lashup greets us in the mountains: Three red-and-silver SD75s and a green SD40-2 roll downgrade out of tunnel 1. |
| Two more westbounds follow on 8214's heels; one BNSF and one UP, as they hold back the force of gravity between tunnels 1 and 2. |
| Still another BNSF westbound rolls downgrade, with its Scotchlite catching the rising sun's rays. |
| ...and yet another westbound(!), this one barrelling out of Tunnel 1. |
| A Union Pacific eastbound train begins it climb up through a canyon before passing through Caliente. |
