Woodford Siding, Tehachapi Pass

andersley · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: Woodford Siding, Tehachapi Pass

February 1998

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d6841 · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject:

First Class.

The striking thing about these videos is that the freights always seem to be wandering along at their own pace not as in this country trying to keep up with or get out the way of passenger workings.

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andersley · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject:

On Tehachapi Pass, the track is single line with passing loops (very long ones) as at Woodford. So the trains have to move from siding to siding to pass each other.

Even when they have a clear run they are not moving very quickly as the line has steep grades, so they are either storming uphill or in dynamic braking mode creeping down. Would not want to lose control of a train as ther are also some tight curves. Shocked

For a tight curve at the bottom of a steep section, see the Caliente video. They really have to crawl around that and over the grade crossing.

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