Weekend freight from Caliente to Rosamond.

I spent day two of a trip to Mountain Valley Airport in Tehachapi pacing UP and BNSF freights along the Mojave division, across the Tehachapi Pass and down into the Mojave basin. Shots are from Caliente, Keene, Walong, Monolith, and Rosamond.

 

A BNSF manifest with UP locos in tow rounds the curve into Caliente, slowing down before the tight hairpin turn and climb up towards Keene.

A UP stacktrain glides down the slope into Caliente.

Meeting the same BNSF train at Keene......

......and again in the famed Tehachapi Loop at Walong.

An SD70ACE in Armour Yellow leads a manifest out of Tehachapi and towards CP Monolith before descending into Mojave.

A UP manifest bookended by AC44CWs runs northwest to Mojave.

 

Coaster and Surfliners with a surprise

A highly unusual double-ended Surfliner consist

 

Little Italy & Balboa spotting

 

Railfanning Yorba Linda

A westbound Metrolink F125

A pair of light engines, perhaps helpers on the way back to Hobart.

The BNSF mainline through Yorba Linda is BNSF's gateway to the Port of LA and Long Beach so this line is home to tons of hot intermodal units.

An F125 bringing up the rear of a westbound Metrolink

An SD70ACE leads a drag of empty autoracks

 

VIDEO- Coaster and Surfliners at Leucadia Boulevard Crossing

 

Beach Bash

 Had a red-letter day at Coronado today.

DDG-106 USS Stockdale, a Flight IIA Arleigh-Burke class guided missile destroyer.

A Beech T-34C Turbo Mentor shows off on a low, tight short final

A Turbo Caribou, shuttling between San Clemente Island and North Island

Not your doctor's Bonanza!

Fighting Redcocks! F/A-18F Hornets of VFA-22, including VFA-22's CAG bird.

A CASA 212 Aviocar, another San Clemente shuttle.

An F/A-18E of VFA-137 Kestrels

More F/A-18E Hornets, this time of VFA-94 Mighty Shrikes.