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Post by thespcaboose on Dec 2, 2008 17:40:13 GMT -5
Fantastic photos and memories.
This stuff makes me proud to be a former SP employee!!
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Post by espeefoamer on Dec 2, 2008 19:39:10 GMT -5
Great photos with a variety of motive power! This is one reason I love the SP. ;D  |
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Post by drew1946 on Dec 3, 2008 1:27:32 GMT -5
 March 1971, Train #52, The San Joaquin Daylight which until the end was usually equipped with round end obs cars (by then converted to chair cars) and is seen at Walong on the Tehachapi Loop. I wonder who that girl was---and where is she today? By the way, thanks for comments guys---they are much appreciated. |
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Post by drew1946 on Dec 3, 2008 2:40:04 GMT -5
 Under a gorgeous morning sky, LA style, SP Train #1 with #6451, 3009, and 6454 on the head end, arrives at LAUPT in March of 1971. |
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Post by drew1946 on Dec 3, 2008 2:45:02 GMT -5
 Pacific Locomotive Association's Truckee Limited of April 25th, 1971. The last excursion train to operate on the SP prior to Amtrak on May 1. Seen East bound on the #2 track at Norden. |
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Post by drew1946 on Dec 3, 2008 2:54:34 GMT -5
 Easter Sunday 1971, Sacramento, CA, as the Sacramento Daylight prepares to head South to Tracy and meet the San Joaquin Daylight. Note the then still standing SP hospital in the far background. |
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Post by Enzo Fortuna on Dec 3, 2008 12:36:02 GMT -5
I well remember this picture and the "poetic" question....
where I've already read it?
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Post by thespcaboose on Dec 3, 2008 21:43:32 GMT -5
Awesome photos by all!!
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Post by drew1946 on Dec 4, 2008 1:10:42 GMT -5
 Train #2 ready to depart LAUPT, mid-March, 1971 |
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Post by drew1946 on Dec 4, 2008 1:14:19 GMT -5
 Well, not really an Espee train, in fact Amtrak #5 at Soda Springs Crossing in January of 1986, but #3207 is certainly SP---even if was "Kodachromed" for the ill-fated SPSF merger |
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Post by drew1946 on Dec 4, 2008 1:31:46 GMT -5
 Like so many shots from the early Amtrak era---it may be an Amtrak train but all eight locomotives either are or were SP veterens. The two SD45's in the lead still have their L-shaped windows and have not yet gotten the large "SP" (well, SSW I guess) on the nose. Reno Fun Train, February 1976, Emigrant Gap, Westbound, approaching Switch Nine. |
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Post by espeelover on Dec 4, 2008 16:44:59 GMT -5
Like so many shots from the early Amtrak era---it may be an Amtrak train but all eight locomotives either are or were SP veterens. The two SD45's in the lead still have their L-shaped windows and have not yet gotten the large "SP" (well, SSW I guess) on the nose. Reno Fun Train, February 1976, Emigrant Gap, Westbound, approaching Switch Nine. Right now, I have only one wish; that you had been into sound movies...I'd love to heard this working uphill! NICE SHOT! |
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Post by espeefoamer on Dec 4, 2008 20:13:52 GMT -5
I saw the Reno Fun Train once,somewhere west of Sacramento,pulled by 7 F units! ;D |
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Post by drew1946 on Dec 5, 2008 0:43:15 GMT -5
 SP SDP45 #3205 has just crossed the San Joaquin River at Mossdale with Train #52, the LA bound San Joaquin Daylight. The area to the right is now all housing---probably a lot of it bank owned. |
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Post by drew1946 on Dec 5, 2008 0:56:43 GMT -5
 SP #4803, a Fairbanks-Morse Train Master, is at Santa Clara with Train #153, which still carried an RPO at that time. September 1964 |
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