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On this day four years ago, I re-visited the former Southern Pacific crossing the Tehachapi mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Walong, popularly described as the ‘Tehachapi Loop’\u2014where in the 1870s SP’s chief engineer William Hood applied this spiral arrangement to gain elevation while maintaining a steady gradient\u2014I photographed this BNSF eastward intermodal train. (train direction is by timetable, not the compass.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with my FujiFilm XT1 fitted with an 18-135mm Fujinon zoom, I made this photograph with the lens set to 21.6mm in order to take in most of the helical track arrangement. Exposure was f8 at 1\/500 of a second at 200 ISO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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