Field Goal -- Union Pacific Freight Train in Caliente, California
by Darin Volpe
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Field Goal -- Union Pacific Freight Train in Caliente, California
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Darin Volpe
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The quiet is broken by a faint horn. Within a few minutes the sound of the approaching train gets louder. Then the clanging of bells starts and the gates come down – another train has come down the mountain.
For most of the year the hills of the Tehachapi Mountains are the famous “golden hills of Calfornia.” But for a short time in the early months of the year, they become covered with a green coat of fresh vegetation. Through the seasons, trains of the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads steadily flow through the hills and pass a small community tucked away in the Tehachapi Mountains. Over thirty times each day these gates come down to allow a train to cross this road on its way up or, in this case, down the long grade between Tehachapi and Bakersfield.
This crossing in Caliente, California, is on a horseshoe curve where trains make a 180-degree turn. It's one of the strategies railroads use in mountain terrain to to take the long route between point A and point B and thereby reduce grade needed to get between those points to something manageable.
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March 5th, 2023
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