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April 8th 1968 at LAUPT |
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The last inbound Lark, SP train 76, has arrived. Stragglers are still trying to leave the scene taking memories of overnight rail travel between California's (then) two largest cities. Tower building in the background is "Terminal Tower." |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:01:00 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Pat Flynn |
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Rear end of the Lark on track 11. |
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Just to the right of the Lark's rear car is the head end of the Coast Daylight, before the engs came down from Taylor Yard. To the right of that, are UP express cars that will be added to the "City of Los Angeles" later in the day. And the picture to the right of that shows part of the HUGE US Mail sorting complex at LAUPT. Remember, this is after the USPS cut off most of the RPO's, but much express still traveled by rail. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:01:23 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Wow....Espee E units. |
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Being from the SF Bay Area, we didn't see SP E units, unless we were very lucky to hit some when we went over to the Peninsula to watch trains. So, the sound of these twin-motored units were very distinct, and got our attention as they were coming back from the west end of the engine escape track between platform tracks 7 and 6, after cutting off the inbound "Sunest Limited" that had arrived before the Lark. Power is heading back to Taylor yard for servicing. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:01:36 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Pat Flynn |
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SP 6046(E9A) |
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SP E8 6046 |
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At least I think it's an E8......PA's went to 6045, and I thought SP had but one E8, and that would be 6046. Still recall how the two 567's in each E seemed to be not quite in snych as they throttled up and down, so it sounded like FOUR units. And they had a different sound from F's and Geeps. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:01:50 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Pat Flynn |
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SP 6046(E9A) |
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Intoxicated by Espee E's... |
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Just had to take another shot of these, SP 6049 (E9) and SP 6046 (E8).... |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:02:31 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Pat Flynn |
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SP 6049(E9A) |
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And look what was behind the E's! |
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An old Santa Fe ALCO (S2? Hard to tell from this angle), getting ready to take the SP 150, "Sunset" business car somewhere. Maybe it was very early SP-ATSF merger talks? Just hope the crew on those E's can figure out which signal on the bridge at Terminal Tower is THEIRS! |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:02:41 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Hey, it's the Super Chief / El Capitan !!! |
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I do believe this was the FIRST time that I had ever seen trains 17 or 18 in my life (only 15 years of life at that time...) I believe it pulled in on track 10 while we were still looking around the "Last Lark" we had just gotten off of, and before the "Sunset" power had run past us at the east end of the station. We of course ran down to the bumper end of LAUPT, and the crew was long gone. But I do recall that the Mars signal light on the 313L was still spinning around and around from momentum, I guess. |
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4/11/2008 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:04:26 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Super Cap |
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Backed off the angle a bit on this shot, and you can see the El Cap cars on the head end and the Super Chief on the rear. By Santa Fe standards, this wasn't a BIG train, with just 5 F's and maybe 14 or 15 cars. But for the kids from the Bay Area, it was SOMETHIN' ELSE.... |
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4/11/2008 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:04:37 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Power for our Train 99 arrived from Taylor Yard. |
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And, we were thrilled to see that we'd be going north to San Fran behind another SP E unit, the 6050. With the PA's having been retired the year before, this was the "other" neat passenger train power that the SP had left that we didn't get to see on a regular basis in the Bay Area. |
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4/11/2008 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:04:48 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Shiny flanks of an Espee unit....really! |
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SP passenger equipped F7B number 8135 trailed the E on our train 99, and look at the reflection off those side panels...not quite the ATSF or WP aluminum reflection, but you know it had to be pretty clean to look like this! I honestly have to say that the "Bloody Nose" scheme didn't look that bad to me. |
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4/11/2008 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:04:58 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Pat Flynn |
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Train 99 leaves LAUPT, and we see the "Last Lark" on track 11. |
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Your typical tomatoe (tomato?)- red striped silver train. You can see articulated and non-articulated coaches, Shasta-style coaches with those huge windows, and there's a diner hiding behind the herder's shack. |
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4/11/2008 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:05:08 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Throttling up on 99! |
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Our power adds to the already smog-rich LA Basin sky as the speed kicks up a bit after clearing the umbrella sheds at LAUPT. Up ahead is Mission Tower. Yeah, we're the "Coast Daylight," but look at all the "Shasta Daylight" cars on the train. First out is one of those SP Combines, I think the 3300-class (?)....then one of the converted Shastas with the smaller windows near the center, a true Shasta, the famous "Automatic Buffet Car" and then more Shasta coaches. |
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4/11/2008 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:05:20 PM |
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Pat Flynn |
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Cruds at Oxnard.... |
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SF Bay area switch engines tended to be ALCO's or FM's, so the sight of these nearly new SP SW1500's sitting at Oxnard was very interesting. We would later learn to despise the "cruds" since they were slowly taking over all switching on the SP from the older EMD's, ALCO'S and FM's. Little did I realize that TWENTY-FOUR years later, I would be dispatching this SP Coast Line, and the Leesdale Local with SW1500's would be making my dispatching life miserable, always wanting to run in front of the Amtraks and Metrolinks! |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:05:31 PM |
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Oxnard, CA |
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SP 2475(SW1500) SP 2469(SW1500) SP 2471(SW1500) |
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Just north of the "Forbidden Territory" |
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After passing the mighty space vehicle launch facilities along the SP tracks thru Vandenburg AFB, we curved gently inland from the Pacific and into rolling hills that would take us over to the Santa Maria Valley region. Again, in the 1990's, SP trains would create life's hassles for me, stalling out on the southbound grade out of Guadalupe before topping out Shuman Hill, and the Guadalupe and Lompoc switchers would always want to playout on the main track around Amtrak time! But what a great line to ride, watch or dispatch! Loved it. Just can't be the same with UP yellow all over it... |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:05:57 PM |
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Casmalia, CA |
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San Luis Obispo roundhouse... |
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Well, not really a roundhouse anymore, but a heck of a lot of service tracks, and lots of Coast line power scattered about. There was a 5 or 6 unit string of F's, several GP35's, GP9's, and a couple of GE U25B's. In the Bay Area, GP35's and U boats weren't usually seen much, at least north and east of San Jose. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:08 PM |
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San Luis Obispo, CA |
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Yikes, yet another SP E unit !!! |
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I am surprised I even got this shot, considering we were riding in the coach, and really had no warning of Train 98's approach. Of course, this was the usual meeting point (or south of here) for 98 and 99 at this period of time, since you could ride 98 down from the Bay Area to SLO and then catch 99 right back. I think it was jus a 20 to 25 minute scheduled lay-over between trains, and the surly SP ticket agents would always get nervous about us buying tickets for such a roundtrip, admonishing us that SP would not be responsible for us missing the connection between 98 and 99! Duh. I think we did that trip twice, one time with Parlor Car seats in the boat tail. Yeah, the Coast train still had the real Parlor car on the rear most days, with extra fare for the ride. Oh, and there's a Coast line Geep, under the sanding rig. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:20 PM |
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San Luis Obispo, CA |
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Nice crew office for SP at SLO... |
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Yeah, that's the "yard office" at SLO, pretty nice compared to prefab jobs elsewhere, huh? You can see lots of passenger train crew members lurking about the doorway. One guy looks like a special agent or a trainmaster, wearing that hat and tie, eh? The fellow walking south in the foul of main track 2 is no doubt the "flagman" for our train 99. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:30 PM |
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San Luis Obispo, CA |
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Classic San Luis Obispo Shot. |
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Or at least as close as I could get it. You can see that behind the Automatic Buffet Car, there's FOUR more Shasta coaches, and then the parlor-observation. Palm trees, and a mission-design station. Yeah, this is California. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:40 PM |
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San Luis Obispo, CA |
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Head end shot of train 99. |
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We got brave (you notice we hadn't been riding the vestibules so far- that's why the pictures are thru the windows!) and strolled up to the head end as 99 stopped at SLO for crew change and servicing. Gee, one of the yardmen is standing at the water hose cart, ready to add water to the units, I guess, if needed. Of the 2 or 3 folks standing and chatting, the late Gerry Salsig is the one facing towards the eng, right hand on hip, and left hand holding his camera bag and whatever. So, I guess that's my "Kodak" camera bag and notepad on the ground between me and them. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:06:51 PM |
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San Luis Obispo, CA |
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Pat Flynn |
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SP 6050(E9A) |
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Heading left into the horseshoe at Chorro... |
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We're down to just 20 or 25mph as we start the climb up Cuesta. Left-overs of the old wye track can be seen. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:07:01 PM |
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Chorro, CA |
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And to the right we go... |
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as we approach the east end of the CTC sdg at Chorro. Well, at least the windows were clean, if I had to shoot thru them and get that nice reflection, too. |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:07:14 PM |
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Chorro, CA |
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Last shot I have of the trip..... |
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Looking back at Stenner Creek Bridge from way up above the west end of Chorro sdg. About two decades later, Mike Magazin and Bob Wershila and I would make a trip down this way, to catch freight action on Cuesta, during the prelude to one of the times that SP "shut down" thru freight traffic on the Coast Line. To be honest, I think Gerry and I fell asleep after topping out at Cuesta Summit on this trip, and snoozed our way up the Salinas Valley. Even at mid-teen age, having been up for about 34 hours caught up with us eventually. Now, four decades-plus OLDER, after 34 hours awake, I'd be dead. So, I wouldn't really be awake. Hmm- they say the first thing to go is your memory.... |
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4/8/1968 Upload Date: 4/11/2008 11:07:25 PM |
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Chorro, CA |
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