Other Metrolink trains await Monday's busy schedule
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Our train, ready to begin its Westbound trip
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All clear ahead, highball!
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Speeding down the UP Mainline, leaving Lancaster
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Passing U.P. locomotives in Palmdale
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Ceeping along as a Lancaster-bound train decends the grade
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It's cool inside the Air Conditioned cab-car!
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A view of the engineer's control stand as we head West
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The elephant railfan again- I wonder if he know's we're the same train?
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Climbing through the pass on our way to Vincent Grade
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High Desert Mining operation
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Into the tunnel, again!
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Rolling through fronteer-like high desert
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Civilization is creeping up the hills that overlook these open-pit mines
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Sprinting across the high desert to Santa Clarita
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Ex-ATSF High-Level converted dorm car at Newhall
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Newhall Station's clock tower
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Engine #1629 parked in Newhall
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Approaching the San Fernando Tunnel
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6,940 feet to the San Fernando Valley!
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DWP Facility next to the 5 Freeway
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Yellow signals outside of Sun Valley
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Approaching Burbank
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Almost to Los Angeles as we roll through Glendale
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Late afternoon along the Los Angeles River
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Retired Amtrak F40PH's
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Metrolink's Taylor Yard
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The back-side of Dodger Stadium
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Metro Gold Line maintenance yards
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Approaching Green over Red as we prepare to wye the train at Mission Tower
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