Circus train SB over Tehachapi Monday evening
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 08-18-2012 - 23:34
I'm posting this a little early in case AP takes a dump again.
The 61 car Ringling Brothers "Blue Unit" jumps from San Jose to San Diego on Monday and Tuesday, via Altamont, Tehachapi and Cajon. The train will depart Milpitas Yard early Monday morning, pick up the rest of the flats and animals at San Jose, then run via Altamont to Stockton where it will be interchanged to BNSF (and likely change power) for the trip to San Diego. That means a late afternoon or evening run over Tehachapi and a late evening or early monring run over Cajon.
Power currently assigned out of Milpitas is UP5134 - CP8653.
"Subject to change without notice."
The train will head back north from San Diego to Bakersfield on August 27th/August 28th, then plays Sacramento, Stockton, Salt Lake City and Denver before heading to St. Louis.