Cajon Pilgrimage 2009

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Where's that one westbound with the CN SD75?

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My day on Cajon started out much later than I had hoped. I arrived around 11AM. At least I didn't miss out on the view of the snow! My first train of the day was a BNSF pig train. I had decided I was going to use my 55-250mm lens for the day. I was determined to take some hand held shots with that lens and have them come out clear. THe nice thing is that I was able to get some candid shots of Bob without him even knowing I was around.

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Next up, we were visited by a BNSF stack train. A photo line quickly formed as the stack train was chased down the hill by UP. Also, Jack was amused when Danny's head was eaten by his own hat.

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"FINALY TIM POSTS HIS PICTURES FROM PILGRIMAGE 09."

Sorry I'm late with these, but I did not know how to resize my pictures down to the 600kb size. So almost a year after here are the pictures that I'm sharing with everybody.

My first pictures are from the former site of Cajon. Westbound 4182 leads a stack train down the pass.

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Picture two is a quick grab shot of a west bound UP train that turned out cool.

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This was taken on one of the forest service road that eventually became my first Avatar.

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Here is BNSF 5282 leading west bound train at Blue cut.

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Pictures 6 and 7 are of CN SD75IW 5714 in the middle of a six-pack of BNSF GE engines.

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Me and Chris Parker eventually made it to the Pilgrimage site. There was a good group of us there. Here is my first shot from there.

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There was a westbound UP train coming so a lineup quickly formed. With Chris, Scott, Bob and Brett ready for it.

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Union Pacific's brand new ES44AC 7404 leads SD70M 4884 with a west bound "Quality".

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In the UP manifest there was two old heritage cars in the train. The first is a badly tagged up Chessie System boxcar. The second is a CNW bulk-head car.

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The group takes in the long quality manifest.

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There goes the quality off into the distance.

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After the train left I road my bike down to the forest service road to get a different perspective of the area. The first group is of a east bound UP manifest.

UP 5390 a ES44AC coming towards me.

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Going away.

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This is definitely one of my favorite pictures from that day.

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Thank you for letting me share this with you. All comments are welcome.

Tim~