Monolith -- Union Pacific Freight Train and Monolith Cement Plant in Tehachapi, California
by Darin Volpe
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Monolith -- Union Pacific Freight Train and Monolith Cement Plant in Tehachapi, California
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Darin Volpe
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Photograph - Photography
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Roughly forty trains per day pass the Martin Marietta cement plant in Monolith, California, every day.
Trains have been passing this place since 1876, when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed the line over the Tehachapi Mountains, the last step in connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles. Steam locomotives chugged their way past the original cement plant in 1908, and the passing years saw the plant, and town grow. The steam locomotives that used to pass were being replaced by diesels, and by the 1950s there was a thriving community in Monolith. As the 60s came and went the town vanished as most of the employees had moved into nearby Tehachapi. The plant was rebuilt in 1991, and five years later Southern Pacific was bought out by Union Pacific. Today, modern Union Pacific and BNSF trains pass this landmark an average of once every half hour.
A set three General Electric AC45CCTE locomotives pull a freight train past the Martin Marietta cement plant just east of Tehachapi, California. The train is almost at the top of it's 1,200 foot climb out of Mojave and preparing to descend through the Tehachapi Loop on its way to Bakersfield.
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January 16th, 2022
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