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Western Railroad Discussion > Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA)Date: 02/16/20 17:30 Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: erielackawanna Back on February 1, a friend and I spent the afternoon chasing up and down the Mojave Northern in hopes of catching a bit of variety. As it turned out, it was a day to mostly see the ex UP SD60, but was still a blast. Ran into two other fans out there who were a great help (many thanks for the heads ups, guys).
Images one, two and three, are all of a loaded coal train heading to the Black Mountain Quarry along Quarry Road.    Date: 02/16/20 17:32 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: erielackawanna Two hours later, images four, five and six are of the empty coal train heading back along Quarry Road towards the plant.
   Date: 02/16/20 17:33 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: erielackawanna Images seven, eight and nine are of the train now approaching the plant running down Victor Valley and crossing Bell Mountain Wash.
   Date: 02/16/20 17:36 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: erielackawanna Image ten is of the train pulling into the plant.
Image eleven is the now light SD60 moving around the plant trackage. Image twelve is of the plant's SDP35 sitting in a spot I believe it's been sitting in for some time now.    Date: 02/16/20 17:36 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: SP8595 Nice series! Really like shot #8. Great to see this operation is still in service!
Date: 02/16/20 17:37 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: erielackawanna Image thirteen is of the SD60 passing the SDP35.
Images fourteen and fifteen are of an empty mine train now running back up towards Black Mountain Quarry just after sunset.    Date: 02/16/20 17:38 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: erielackawanna Images sixteen and seventeen are two more of the empty mine train running back up towards Black Mountain Quarry just after sunset.
  Date: 02/16/20 18:09 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: oyw Great shots Charles! I had an interesting (good) experience up there today, will post when time allows.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/20 19:21 by oyw. Date: 02/16/20 18:46 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: atsf121 Great series! I’ve only see a train once as we’ve driven past on I-15, so your pictures are are fun to follow the rest of the route.
Nathan Posted from iPhone Date: 02/16/20 21:39 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: SCKP187 Nice chase shots. Really like the standard cab units.
Brian Stevens Date: 02/16/20 21:41 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: webmaster Like the skid marks in image one. It looks like someone tried to stop for the train.
Todd Clark Canyon Country, CA Trainorders.com Date: 02/16/20 22:00 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: miralomarail Bring back the FM H-20-44's !
 Date: 02/17/20 01:17 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: aronco Cemex is now originating a 110 car unit rock train at Victorville for shipment to an unloading site on the LAJ in Bell, California. It appears the train runs from Victorville late Friday night or Saturday morning. 110 cars should weigh in at about 15,000 tons. I saw the train Saturday afternoon just below Summit. The train consists of aluminum bottom dump cars. They are being re-lettered at Barstow to CEMX initials. That makes three unit agregate trains serving the LA basin now - Cabazon to Torrance, Palmdale to Sun Valley, and this one.
Norm Norman Orfall Helendale, CA TIOGA PASS, a private railcar Date: 02/17/20 04:08 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: mundo Or bring back the steamers ! Can not put my hands on a photo on a railfan excursion.
Date: 02/17/20 06:17 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: exhaustED Some very nice images there of a very interesting operation. Excellently composed, beautifully sharp and the gorgeous lighting from Mother Nature is an added bonus.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/20 08:36 by exhaustED. Date: 02/17/20 07:14 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: PasadenaSub That SD60 is the first unit I can recall with differing numbers on the cab sides and number boards - other than pictures of passenger trains (with the train number) in the pre-Amtrak days.
Great photos, Charles. Rich Date: 02/17/20 08:17 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: TheNavigator Very nice series, Charles! Congrats on IOTD.
GK Date: 02/17/20 08:53 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: RailRat Very Neat Stuff!
Jim Baker Riverside, CA Date: 02/17/20 09:44 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: inyosub Super Nice to see. I have never been real lucky photoing this operation; only an occasional
switching the plant photo. Those images give a real feel for what it's like to chase the road train. Date: 02/17/20 16:16 Re: Mojave Northern Afternoon (Victorville CA) Author: ns1000 Great stuff..!! Thanks for posting.
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