Western Railroad Discussion > Trona Railway at Westend 9/21/20.

- Five aging EMDs all built prior to 1981 lug their loaded train of soda ash out of the mineral rich Searles Valley. TRC 2008 leads past Searles Valley Minerals Westend chemical facility with the Argus Mountains looming in the background. With two of the seven Trona road motors currently out of service the loads will be forced to double the climb to Searles Junction. In a few miles they will set out roughly half the train at the small yard at Oxy, before assaulting the 26 mile long stiff grade to the interchange point with UP at Searles.
- I didn't stick around for the second run, but I'm sure you saw z-trains (Zach's) excellent shots. 

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Glad you could make it out!  Great shot!

cheers,

Paul

Excellent Shot! Came out nice considering the smokey weather!

Will the other two units be able to be placed back into service eventually?

Thx - B

Spectacular Desert photo. Enjoy that area. To bad the town was hit hard by the quake a few years ago. Thanks fo posting

Really nice Jeff!

Thanks for sharing! ... Certainly puts the "work"
environment into perspective ... that is big country
that dwarfs the train ...

Odyssey
Evergreen, CO

Killer shot!

Great stuff. Thanks for these. chris uk

Very nice panorama!
GK

Killer picture. shows the distance between Westend and the main plant at Trona. Just West of the nose of the lead unit
(and hidden by the rock) was Magnesia, the point where the monorail across the lake (and over the hill) reached the
Trona rail line. 

Out 

Awesome shot!

doge_of_pocopson Wrote:
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> Will the other two units be able to be placed back
> into service eventually?
>
> Thx - B

They should be because they need them.

Great photo, looks like a bit of hiking involved.

Rich

NIICE..!!