Western Railroad Discussion > Baja California afternoon with the Garcia Turn

Had a friend from NJ visiting and he wanted to head into TJ to shoot the BJ RR. Unfortunately the train left Tijuana pretty late and only went as far as Garcia. Still came away with a few shots I was glad to have.

First image is the train approaching Z Gas.

Second image is the train arriving in Garcia (note, all Garcia pics taken with permission to be on the property and while wearing full PPE).

Third image is a front-coupled roster of the GP39-3M in BJRR paint.

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Fourth image is of the now one-car train beginning its trek back to Tijuana.

Fifth and sixth images are taken in Tijuana of the return.

We tried to beat it to the bridge over the Tijuana River for one more angle, but with bad traffic we only get there in time to watch the train go over our head.

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Great photos.

Anyone know when they are going to start going up the gorge to El Centro?

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CPRR Wrote:
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> Great photos.
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> Anyone know when they are going to start going up
> the gorge to El Centro?
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> Posted from iPhone


There's a LOT of work that needs to be done before that will ever happen.

Probably after pouring millions of dollars of neglected track maintenance .

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SanJoaquinEngr Wrote:
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> Probably after pouring millions of dollars of
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Yes the track in the first photo looks like it would benefit from some attention.

Track in the first photo is in better shape than much of the trackage East of the Gorge.

Out

Great catches... Charles

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PHall Wrote:
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> CPRR Wrote:
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> > Great photos.
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> > Anyone know when they are going to start going
> up
> > the gorge to El Centro?
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There's a LOT of work that needs to be done before
> that will ever happen.

When does Haley's comet return?... Hauling one car trains does not give much confidence it will ever happen, heck they can't even get the tunnel portal fixed at the border crossing east of Tecate to allow tourist trains through to generate income on the line. Don't hold your breath!

Great catches. The 3906 is quite a paint job.
Brian Stevens

partsguy Wrote:

> When does Haley's comet return?... Hauling one
> car trains does not give much confidence it will
> ever happen, heck they can't even get the tunnel
> portal fixed at the border crossing east of Tecate
> to allow tourist trains through to generate income
> on the line. Don't hold your breath!

The Tunnel 4 East Portal or lack thereof has nothing to do with
tourist trains running into Mexico! First off the museum currently
can't even run to the border due to the FRA taking about a mile of
track out of service due to bad ties, rail and other issues!

The museum is having a contractor come in to do the needed track repairs,

The bigger issue is the daylighted Tunnel 3, about a half mile south of
the border had a partial collapse of the cut, filling in about 2/3 the depth
of the cut!!

Politics is another issue!

This is a great series of photos! Spent many hours operating over this line
for SDIV back in 89/90!

Mike



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/25/17 09:15 by 2720.