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Viewing Album:  Through The Viewfinder 2012
 
By:Rick Erben
Dates:1/1/2012 - 12/31/2012
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BNSF 6680
Title:  BNSF 6680
Description:  The markers on BNSF 4757 South are constituted by the 6680, along with BNSF 4445 shoving mightily upon the consist.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:49:22 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6680(ES44C4)
Views:  152   Comments: 0
Coming round the mountain
Title:  Coming round the mountain
Description:  BNSF 6750 pokes its nose around the corner while negotiating the loop.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 1:08:07 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6750(ES44C4)
Views:  184   Comments: 0
Not far behind the 4757 comes BNSF 6750 with an afternoon intermodal outfit.
Title:  Not far behind the 4757 comes BNSF 6750 with an afternoon intermodal outfit.
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 1:10:15 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6750(ES44C4)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
BNSF 6932 leads a grain train into the loop
Title:  BNSF 6932 leads a grain train into the loop
Description:  The clouds are hanging low about the Tehachapis this morning as BNSF 6932 swings into the loop. For all of its serpentine path and steep ascent or descent, traffic wastes no time moving along this stretch of railroad.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:16:26 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6932(ES44C4)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
BNSF 7231
Title:  BNSF 7231
Description:  Following UP 7738 through the loop is a BNSF outfit.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 1:17:28 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7231(ES44DC) BNSF 5347(C44-9W) BNSF 978(C44-9W) BNSF 653(C44-9W)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
BNSF 7695
Title:  BNSF 7695
Description:  A manifest climbs the loop at six in the evening.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 1:19:42 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7695(ES44DC) BNSF 7410(ES44DC) BNSF 4334(C44-9W)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
BNSF 7695-II
Title:  BNSF 7695-II
Description:  Roaring upgrade during the hour of the long shadows.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 1:21:05 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7695(ES44DC) BNSF 7410(ES44DC) BNSF 4334(C44-9W)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
BNSF 7695-III
Title:  BNSF 7695-III
Description:  Away she goes.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 1:22:39 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7695(ES44DC)
Views:  129   Comments: 0
On the 6932s block
Title:  On the 6932s block
Description:  BNSF 7721 is chasing BNSF 6932 down the mountain with a steel train.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:41:15 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7721(ES44DC)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
Switch pots
Title:  Switch pots
Description:  Awaiting the next snowfall. I recall back in my native Philadelphia area how the interlocking plants would be peppered with flickering switch pots during snow storms. Of course, the remote controlled heaters have largely consigned these quaint switch pots to memory.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:59:56 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  73   Comments: 0
UP 5430
Title:  UP 5430
Description:  A southbound manifest comes through Walong in charge of the 5430 and company.
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:38:24 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5430(AC45CCTE) UP 5443(AC45CCTE) UP 5413(AC45CCTE) UP 8234(SD9043MAC) UP 7613(AC45CCTE)
Views:  448   Comments: 0
UP 7738
Title:  UP 7738
Description:  A hour long lull in traffic is broken by UP 7738
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 1:12:42 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7738(AC45CCTE) UP 4168(SD70M)
Views:  241   Comments: 1
UTLX 630170
Title:  UTLX 630170
Description:  Riding BNSF 7695 South
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 1:24:31 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  60   Comments: 0
Still Life at Walong
Title:  Still Life at Walong
Description:  Codelines and searchlight signal - too rapidly becoming extinct elements of what Kerouac called "the railroad earth".
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:56:32 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  73   Comments: 1
Case of the disappearing searchlights
Title:  Case of the disappearing searchlights
Description:  BNSF 4036 emerges from Tunnel No.5 in a veil of exhaust smoke. Those classic SP searchlights are not long for this world in this view from Cinco de Mayo, 2012.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 12:41:02 AM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4036(C44-9W)
Views:  152   Comments: 2
BNSF 4339-I
Title:  BNSF 4339-I
Description:  After a morning lull, BNSF 4339 can be heard in the distance negotiating Tehachapi loop, then it bursts out of Tunnel No. 10 and roars past.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 12:41:51 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4339(C44-9W)
Views:  100   Comments: 1
BNSF 4339-II
Title:  BNSF 4339-II
Description:  Midday delight.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 12:44:10 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4339(C44-9W)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
Tehachapi Morning
Title:  Tehachapi Morning
Description:  BNSF 4518 is southbound between Walong and Marcel on a Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 5/7/2013 8:32:21 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4518(C44-9W)
Views:  134   Comments: 3
Southbound run of traffic
Title:  Southbound run of traffic
Description:  Third among a run of half a dozen southbounds on a beautiful Saturday morning in the Tehachapis.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 12:24:35 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4518(C44-9W)
Views:  163   Comments: 3
Down in the valley
Title:  Down in the valley
Description:  From a vantage point at Cliff, some seven miles distant by rail, BNSF 5425 negotiates the horseshoe at Caliente.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 1:40:27 PM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  68   Comments: 0
BNSF 5425
Title:  BNSF 5425
Description:  Twenty-five minutes from Caliente, BNSF 5425 is now passing Cliff in the intense sunshine of a Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 1:40:03 PM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5425(C44-9W)
Views:  95   Comments: 1
BNSF 6701
Title:  BNSF 6701
Description:  A southbound BNSF intermodal train exits Tunnel No.10 between Walong and Marcel, CA on Tehachapi Pass.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/16/2012 2:25:39 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6701(ES44C4)
Views:  174   Comments: 2
BNSF 7279
Title:  BNSF 7279
Description:  A northbound intermodal train crosses the dry creek bed approaching Woodford.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 12:34:12 PM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7279(ES44DC)
Views:  200   Comments: 2
Shorty
Title:  Shorty
Description:  BNSF 7746 North has a manifest exiting Tunnel No.9, but the train was about ten cars too short to provide an over/under view.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 12:50:53 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7746(ES44DC)
Views:  153   Comments: 1
Over & Under
Title:  Over & Under
Description:  BNSF 7794 is northbound exiting Tunnel No.9.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 12:48:06 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7794(ES44DC)
Views:  92   Comments: 1
Cinco de Mayo coming in with a roar!
Title:  Cinco de Mayo coming in with a roar!
Description:  BNSF 998 is moving through the tight curvature prevalent on the long grade of Tehachapi Pass - a full throttle symphony of power and wheels squealing as they negotiate the route.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/16/2012 2:34:26 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 998(C44-9W) BNSF 5003(C44-9W) BNSF 704(C44-9W) BNSF 4944(C44-9W)
Views:  215   Comments: 2
Saturday Morning Special
Title:  Saturday Morning Special
Description:  BNSF 998 lights the block as it twists and turns toward Marcel.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/16/2012 2:36:28 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 998(C44-9W)
Views:  114   Comments: 2
Intermediates
Title:  Intermediates
Description:  The lovely intermediate signals between Marcel and Walong.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/16/2012 2:28:19 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  55   Comments: 0
North Marcel Signals
Title:  North Marcel Signals
Description:  Searchlights for northward movement at the north end of Marcel Siding.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/16/2012 2:27:26 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  52   Comments: 0
UP 5546
Title:  UP 5546
Description:  Northbound manifest between Cliff and Bealville near the site of old Tunnel No.4, taken out in the 1952 earthquake.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 1:06:27 PM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5546(AC45CCTE)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
UP 7382
Title:  UP 7382
Description:  UP 7382 is close on BNSF 4518s heels through the curves between Walong and Marcel.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 12:27:44 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7382(AC45CCTE)
Views:  182   Comments: 1
Just long enough
Title:  Just long enough
Description:  UP 7442 is just long enough to have its head end in the OS at Bealville and its rear end in the OS at Cliff.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 12:46:57 PM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  68   Comments: 0
Easing down
Title:  Easing down
Description:  UP 7442 let one by at Woodford and is now easing through Bealville for a meet.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 12:47:12 PM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7442(AC45CCTE)
Views:  195   Comments: 2
Northbound manifest
Title:  Northbound manifest
Description:  UP 7442 is heading in at Woodford to let an intermodal train by.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 12:32:21 PM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7442(AC45CCTE)
Views:  186   Comments: 1
UP 7479
Title:  UP 7479
Description:  DPU power on UP 7442 North
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 12:30:27 PM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7479(AC45CCTE)
Views:  145   Comments: 0
Rolling through the loop
Title:  Rolling through the loop
Description:  UP 7761 is northbound at Walong at six in the afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 12:44:39 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7761(AC45CCTE)
Views:  207   Comments: 1
UP 8531-I
Title:  UP 8531-I
Description:  Fifth in the southbound parade is a UP manifest snarling upgrade. Someone has an excellent vantage point for the action from their home overlooking the railroad.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 12:33:55 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8531(SD70ACe)
Views:  118   Comments: 1
UP 8531-II
Title:  UP 8531-II
Description:  And the earth trembles with raw power gripping steel rails.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 12:35:14 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8531(SD70ACe) UP 7131(AC44CW) UP 8661(SD70ACe)
Views:  273   Comments: 1
UP 8736
Title:  UP 8736
Description:  A southbound pulls up to the signal at Bealville as UP 7442 North slowly pulls up to clear.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 12:59:53 PM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8736(SD70ACe)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
UP 8739
Title:  UP 8739
Description:  The southbound intermodal train is now erupting from Tunnel No.5, ascending the steep incline through Cliff.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 1:00:01 PM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8739(SD70ACe) UP 4924(SD70M) UP 8736(SD70ACe)
Views:  327   Comments: 0
Ominous signs
Title:  Ominous signs
Description:  BNSF 4042 North gently eases down the grade and through the arc at Caliente. Those new generic traffic lights will soon spell the end for the SP era searchlights.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 5/7/2013 9:50:48 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4042(C44-9W)
Views:  73   Comments: 0
BNSF 4335
Title:  BNSF 4335
Description:  A southbound manifest headed for Barstow negotiates the right turn at Caliente as the climb begins in earnest.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 5/7/2013 9:22:29 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4335(C44-9W)
Views:  152   Comments: 1
BNSF 4939
Title:  BNSF 4939
Description:  The signal gang has already gotten to the classic searchlights at Bealville. BNSF 4939 is northbound with an intermodal outfit.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 5/7/2013 9:43:22 AM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4939(C44-9W)
Views:  104   Comments: 0
Gaining elevation
Title:  Gaining elevation
Description:  Over two hours after passing Woodford, the 5521 is some 13 miles down the line now at Caliente after meeting several southbounds.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 5/7/2013 9:41:02 AM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5521(C44-9W)
Views:  54   Comments: 0
Rolling through Woodford
Title:  Rolling through Woodford
Description:  BNSF 5521 North glides downgrade past the searchlights at South Woodford.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 5/7/2013 9:15:25 AM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5521(C44-9W)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
Three views of BNSF 7519-I
Title:  Three views of BNSF 7519-I
Description:  Framed in classic SP searchlight signals
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 12:33:25 PM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7519(ES44DC)
Views:  167   Comments: 0
Three views of BNSF 7519-II
Title:  Three views of BNSF 7519-II
Description:  Roaring past
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 12:35:03 PM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7519(ES44DC)
Views:  180   Comments: 1
Three views of BNSF 7519-III
Title:  Three views of BNSF 7519-III
Description:  High adhesion, stiff grade.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 12:36:33 PM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7519(ES44DC)
Views:  151   Comments: 0
BNSF 7680 comin at ya
Title:  BNSF 7680 comin at ya
Description:  You can be sure this image was accompanied by the sound of laboring diesels and squealing wheels.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 12:23:20 PM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7680(ES44DC)
Views:  126   Comments: 0
BNSF 7912
Title:  BNSF 7912
Description:  This southbound manifest met BNSF 4939 North at Bealville and is about to dive into Tunnel 3.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 5/7/2013 9:49:16 AM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7912(ES44DC)
Views:  302   Comments: 1

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