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Western Railroad Discussion > Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CADate: 05/24/15 07:11 Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: gjc This is day three of a three day railfan trip on 5/18/15 around 6pm. Video shot by Cajon92 using a Canon XHA1 HDV camcorder and edited by yours truely.
After watching the crew build their train at Searles to take back to Trona we made our way to the Trona Pinnacles. Now with X-SP SD40T-2 8541 (TRC 2005) leading the eastbound empties drift down grade and back into the Searles Valley taking in the late afternoon sunlight. George Cataulin San Diego, CA Left Coast Rail Videos You must be a registered subscriber to watch videos. Join Today! Date: 05/24/15 07:34 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: PatternOfFailure Excellent!
Now we just need to convince the Trona to paint their locomotives... Date: 05/24/15 08:23 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: 3rdswitch Great spot and video.
JB Date: 05/24/15 08:42 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: BNSF-6432 Really enjoyed that video. I need to put Trona on my list of things to catch
PQM Date: 05/24/15 09:09 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: MP555 PatternOfFailure Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Excellent! > > Now we just need to convince the Trona to paint > their locomotives... Yeah, In fresh gray and scarlet!! Date: 05/24/15 09:57 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: Mike_B Excellent George! I like your views of the trains moving through the landscape. Watching spinning axle bearings gets boring. Didn't Trona have solid red GE's with white lettering? C30-7's I think???
Date: 05/24/15 10:10 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: dcfbalcoS1 The Red U30Cs were Kaiser - not Trona.
Date: 05/24/15 12:16 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: ns1000 NICE video!!
Date: 05/24/15 16:00 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: zchcsse Great view, great video! I've never hear of that area (Pinnacles). It's pretty neat looking. That's about as 'middle of nowhere' that one can get, it seems!
-Tom Date: 05/24/15 16:41 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: cctgm The area at the Pinnacles was usedto fiilm Star Trek V and also some Battle Star Galactica TV and Lost in Space and The desert in Planet of the Apes , there are over 500 Calcium Carbonate spires in the area there is a sign off the hiway 178 to drive in to the railroad about 5 miles and the road at times can get rough, The Trona ran a work train for StarTrek to get film and props and equipment in and out each day of filiming on flat cars. This is BLM land and its part of the Mojave Desert Preserve and Trona's Owner the Soda ash and Borate and potash company feels as long as the engines run well paint does not matter, at one point when I was there we had 6 ex Santa Fe SD45's converted to SD40-2 units but we kept the larger radiators for the extra cooling they were painted
with Dupont Imron Santa Fe Warbonnet Red and Then ATSF Silver with white lettering and hand rails they were leased from Helm and are now part of the Helm HCLX lease fleet TRC 3001 to 3007 If you venture out to the area bring plenty of water and look out for rattle snakes along line the with a large colony of GREEN Mojaves's at Searles Station and the Tunnel at Searles. Date: 05/24/15 18:12 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: stlrailfan great video , thanks for posting.
Mark Mauner Date: 05/24/15 21:51 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: Cajon92 That was such an epic way to end our trip! Thanks for putting it together and sharing the video, George.
~Ryan Date: 05/25/15 06:17 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: TheNavigator Nice perspective and great shooting, George and Ryan. Thanks for posting.
Gary Date: 05/25/15 08:42 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: RollByLooksGood Yes, thank you for sharing a cool video. And I agree about a new coat of grey and scarlet for those SD40Ts!
Posted from iPhone Date: 05/25/15 11:12 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: Mike_B dcfbalcoS1 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > The Red U30Cs were Kaiser - not Trona. That's right, the old Eagle Mountain Railroad. That was almost 30 years ago. Date: 05/25/15 15:59 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: SCKP187 Very impressive--great location.
Brian Stevens Date: 05/26/15 10:54 Re: Trona Railway at Trona Pinnacles, CA Author: dlbowen Thanks for posting this compelling video; it really captures the vastness of the desert very well.
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