Big Train at Bealville Illustration
What’s not to like about the curves visible from the north switch at Bealville? Long trains will wind in and out of all the little valleys the original engineers used to help maintain the grade up Tehachapi. Oh and the grade. What a better way to see the impact of the grade than to see the same train on 5 different levels? For trains this is as sexy as it gets!
The reality of Bealville is that it is almost 2 rail miles from the south portal of tunnel 2 to the Allard crossover so the odds of seeing the head end power and the DPU of the same train is pretty slim. If a two mile long train isn’t in the cards the best bet is to have a meet between Bealville and Allard and good timing so the power of both trains is in the right spot at the right time.
So what happened in this image? Neither thing happened. I positioned the DPU in the right spot and the head end in the right spot and used some technology to make a big train at Bealville. Forgive me.
