Western Railroad Discussion > I Finally Caught One

While working on a road project at Highway 58 and Tehachapi Blvd. today, (about midway between Tehachapi and Monolith), A southbound BNSF manifest passed by. The last engine in the power was one of the "Cream & Green" SD-70 MAC's (please correct me if I am wrong). I just had to have a photo of this engine, but train-chasing with my employer's commercial truck was not a viable option. After my trailers were loaded, I started east on Tehachapi Blvd. As I approached the Monolith Cement Plant, I could see that the BNSF freight had stopped - for what reason, I do not know. As I passed the stopped train on the paralleling highway, I hoped that he would still be there when I returned. When I unloaded my trailers and was heading back, the train was still there. I slowed down to a crawl to get the two shots shown here. Here is the BNSF 9766. Thankfully, there was not a lot of traffic at the time. Oh, one more thing. Please excuse the "blue" area on one of the photos. I was playing around with the photo Microsoft Paint, and accidently hit the "erase" button. What you see is my attempt to restore the blue sky.

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That IS a SD70MAC , built in May of 1996 .



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/09/17 06:56 by GP30Frank.

Had one on point a month or so ago--rode like a Cadillac!

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Three of them headed west on a HTULBAR
6405 leading two and one on the rear. All green.