"Tough Guys" Movie Train - SP Coastline 1986
X4449 Daylight and the Tough Guys movie train running eastbound south of Santa Barbara at Pt. Fernald on the then Southern Pacific Coastline route heading for Los Angeles in 1986.
Tough Guys Through Santa Susana
Southern Pacific GS-4 "Daylight", running as X4449, takes a sweeping curve eastbound through the rocks of Santa Susana Pass towards Los Angeles to take part in filming sequences for the movie "Tough Guys" in 1986.
Rio Grande Along the Banks
Rio Grande GP40 #3086 leads this TOFC train along the East Bank of the Los Angeles River under a familiar SP landmark signal bridge approaching Taylor Yard in 1984.
Oil Cans through Tehachapi Pass
Lead SP SD40T-2 #8236 works the main with the eastbound "Oil Cans" at Woodford in Tehachapi Pass in 1984. Between the headend power and the helpers, it was quite a symphony of pure SP!
SP Power - 7th Street San Francisco
Here's a closeup of assorted classic Southern Pacific power basking in the afternoon sun at the Townsend and 7th Street Diesel Facility in downtown San Francisco in 1981.
SP Action Around the Loop - 1995
Led by SP SD70M #9816 in April 1995, this eastbound is pulling around Tehachapi Loop in the late afternoon sun on the main track in Tehachapi Pass.
East Meets West at Woodford
Santa Fe SuperFleet Warbonnet units take the mainline westbound through Woodford while Blue and Yellow units hold the siding in the late afternoon sun in Tehachapi Pass in 1995.
SF Blue and Yellow Warbonnets!
Santa Fe Cowl SDF45 #5961 east leads its train through Woodford over Southern Pacific rails towards Tehachapi Loop in 1986. It was a challenge to shoot solid B/Y consists with the ATSF/SP merger still pending!
Kodachrome Through Snowy Cajon Station
Eastbound Santa Fe SD45 "Kodachrome" #5351 leads a manifest freight while braving the winter wonderland through Cajon Station on the North Main on Cajon's 1st Subdivision on February 25, 1987.
ATSF Freight through Cajon Station
ATSF SD45-2 #5639 leads this eastbound COFC/TOFC train up the South Track through Cajon Pass on the 1st Subdivision for the run to Summit in 1986.
Union Pacific Hauls the APL Stacks
Union Pacific SD40-2 #3702 leads eastbound APL double stacks over ATSF trackage west of Cajon Summit in Cajon Pass in 1986.
SP SD70M #9806 eastbound @ West Woodford
Southern Pacific SD70M #9806 east negotiates the curves at West Woodford in Tehachapi Pass in the Spring of 1995.