Amtrak California passenger car #8031 has an axle changed at the Bakersfield, CA Amtrak station.
Manifest climbs out of the San Joaquin Valley into the Tehachapis.
SJVR 2122 in fresh G&W paint.
A Friday late-afternoon overview of the Bakersfield engine terminal reveals a lot of power on the servicing tracks. Most of the local power was rebuilt GP30's and GP35's.
Meeting point for RR fans: Iron horse cocktail lounge in an old depot
BL20-2 # 2120 and GP38 # 3824 of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad (a Genesee & Wyoming Inc. railway) on the Buttonwillow Subdivision in Bowerbank (Mile 3.2), switching some cars.
BNSF 2644 at Bakersfield.
SJVR 2122 in the G&W orange paint.
SJVR 2121 in the G&W orange paint.
A brand new BNSF C4 leads a Richmond to El Paso V train into Bakersfield.
Another wild BNSF lashup leads the "PASBAR" into Bakersfield with NS Southern heritage unit 8099.
A maze of containers.
A UP manifest makes its way uphill out of Caliente as a couple of Aussie railfans video the train as it passes.
Stacks bound for Tacoma, Washington trail the Western Pacific heritage unit as it climbs through Sandcut on a damp January morning.
Sure, it's seen better days, but finding a Rio Grande-painted unit years after that railroad disappeared into the Southern Pacific, and then the SP disappeared into the Union Pacific, is always a ... (more)