My recent trip to the wind farm at Palm Springs reminded of this photo I took several months earlier at another popular junction of windmills and trains.
A stockton bound stack train has almost completed its climb up to the summit at Tehachapi, as it hustles across the valley approaching Monolith. The rear end of the high priority Z-NBYWSP can sti... (more)
With less than an hour of sunlight remaining, the Union Pacific Long Beach to Oakland container train is at track speed near Monolith with Tehachapi summit just a couple of miles ahead.