Tehachapi Railfanning

Over spring break I took a pair of trips up to Tehachapi to fill some holes on a narrated documentary I've been working on for the better part of a decade (more on that in an announcement/preview video I'll be posting in the next few months!) and the area around Cliff was the main target. I wound up driving back to Tunnel 5 on both ends and caught a number of trains passing through the tunnel in amazing light, but that's not the only location I focused on! Bakersfield (with a San Joaquin Valley Railroad train from Arvin led by one of their new Knoxville engines), track work at Magunden, plenty of meets, and a UP crew from Mojave attaching themselves to a loaded coal train at Ansel are just a few of the amazing catches I made on this trip!
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#train #railfan #railfanning #BNSF #UnionPacific #Union Pacific #Cajon Pass #Tehachapi Loop #tehachapi #railroads

[@darrelgibbs4898]

i am Gald you Went to Tehachapi i Love the View it is so Great to Look at Thankyou

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you! I love going up there

[@davestrains6816]

Nice, thanks for sharing. Dave

[@cagorrie]

Brilliant as usual, thanks for posting this

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you!

[@charliebrooks2570]

Nice catches! Great scenery!

[@kodiakbaertracks-railfan8655]

Wow it's beautiful out there. Keep it up!

[@dannygayler3164]

Most enjoyable !

[@RailfanJunction]

Thanks!!

[@alexschmollinger6576]

Ultimate Tehachapi Pass and Tehachapi is my favorite Railfan Location of All time I love watching your KZbin videos on Your KZbin Channel Railfan Junction 💗💗💗🤘🤘🤘💯💯

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you so much!!!

[@Nicola636128]

Excellent video, magic Tehachapi.

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you!!

[@John-vw7ui]

GREAT audio & Video! Looked really great on my phone and decided to watch it on the big screen. Sat and ate dinner while watching.

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you!!

[@sanjok1992]

Awesome!

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you!!

[@RashidHussain007]

super great video

[@RailfanJunction]

Thanks!!

[@RR1976]

Wow... you captured what I had envisioned... I had a crap telephoto that I wished I could capture them going through Caliente while standing all the way by tunnel 5.

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you!!

[@TokyoNightGirl-fk4cn]

💕Wow💛💛💛💛💙💛💙

[@JohnNyren65]

Fantastic video! Love the lighting

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you so much!!!

[@mikechupp3496]

I'm from western NY Tehachapi is one of my dream railfaning places to go someday I hope I get too and it's videos like this that makes me want to go there more and more awesome trains beautiful scenery awesome video. Railfan Junction 2 thumbs up 👍 👌

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you! It's definitely a magical place to go to, easily my favorite in California

[@mikechupp3496]

@@RailfanJunction your very welcome

[@StonewallTitlow]

When the video actually lives up to the hype of “The Ultimate Tehachapi”..

[@RR1976]

First... this is a great video. I made one too from this location at tunnel five a few years ago. Since then I was told that this spot is on private property, and when I drove away a few hours later it was just in time to see a couple cop cars coming from the opposite direction when leaving the area (I had made it on to the main road by this time), didn't know if they were headed that way to check on a possible trespasser situation. Anyway... a word of caution to anyone else thinking of checking out this spot. It might not be all that legit. That said... love anything Tehachapi. If you can shed light on whether or not this is the case (regarding the possible tresspassing), I'd really appreciate it, because after seeing this spot in person I've very much have wanted to go back ever since.

[@RailfanJunction]

I appreciate the word of caution! I drove by a parked set of maintenance workers both times I drove up there and didn't get any flak for being up at the tunnel but its legality is definitely dubious, there's at least no "no trespassing" signs along the ROW and I've never been yelled at for being back past Tunnel 3 in the 15+ years I've been going up there.

[@mikeking245]

youre literally in the middle of nowhere, dont spend what precious time you have on this earth worrying about such things. Enjoy that you are free and out of the big city, cheers.

[@timspooner59]

From auckland new zealand. 18c at 9pm.

[@luciencote6214]

Very good video, lot of power. Question : at the time, 54:10, somebody installed the beehive ?

[@RailfanJunction]

Yep! There's a number of beehives around the pass.

[@cagorrie]

At the 1hr 27m mark, where is that please, and is there a balloon loop ? It looked like the locos and the car did a complete 180deg change of direction.

[@RailfanJunction]

That's a siding called Ansel where UP stores coal trains that go up the Lone Pine branch for the power plant at Argus. No loop there, the engines just were oriented so that they were facing the correct way in both directions.

[@marcbyrnes293]

Nice to see some green in the landscape. Btw- is most of this traffic on the transcontinental Los Angeles - Chicago main line?

[@marcbyrnes293]

I meant is this traffic between LA and Chicago or other, shorter runs?

[@RailfanJunction]

Most of BNSF's intermodal traffic is - though their manifests on this line typically terminate in Barstow. UP's traffic is mostly north-south save for occasional trains that take the east leg of the wye in Colton to head east. There used to be an intermodal train from Dallas to Tacoma that would run every week or so but I think it's been annulled.

[@marcbyrnes293]

@@RailfanJunction thanks Haven't followed recent developments on the tehachapi section.

[@BlakesTrainsandMore4014]

What kind of engine is SJVR 3001, it looks like a mix between a Geep and a 70ACE, with a GE dash 8 standard, cab .

[@RailfanJunction]

It's a Progress Rail PR30B - one of the last units delivered in the RailAmerica scheme about a decade ago.

[@RasmusLarsenRAL0503]

Flot video tak

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you!!

[@christopherdibble5872]

The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954

[@RailfanJunction]

They still do from the cab!

[@ericavieiradesantana4553]

Show de bola cara 🚹🚹🚹🚹🚹🚹🚹🚹.

[@RailfanJunction]

Thanks!

[@drewharman1690]

Morning Jeff! You still hunting or ready to transition to habitat work?

[@RailfanJunction]

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[@maciejqantas5535]

28:20 what is this loco?

[@RailfanJunction]

NZE24B - Knoxville Locomotive Works rebuilt tier IV unit delivered in 2019 to the SJVR

[@maciejqantas5535]

@@RailfanJunction thank you for the information.

[@philipvandyke5980]

Funny, got many many view and only 476 thumbs up. Shameful. Put all this together and little reward by viewers. Must be a lot of cell watching

[@RailfanJunction]

It's all good! I primarily railfan for my own enjoyment and being successful is secondary to having fun, so videos being successful and well-watched is just an added bonus ^^

[@eprohoda]

you made beatuiful ~ ;))

[@RailfanJunction]

Thank you!!