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Date: February 27, 2001 Location: Quantico, East of Kern Junction
In a visual commentary of the times, two ex-SP SD40T-2's that once ruled Tehachapi Pass
have been demoted to yard and local duties. Here they are assembling a train near
the East end of the Bakersfield Yard. |
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Date: February 26, 2001 Location: Quantico, East of Kern Junction
The late afternoon sun highlights the scarlet nose of an SP SD70M leading a Westbound
UP train into the Bakersfield Yard at Quantico. |
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Date: November 7, 2000 Location: UP (ex-SP)
Valley Line West of Kern Junction, near Chester
Ave.
The familiar red nose of an SP locomotive still makes regular apperances along UP's
ex-SP lines. Here, an Eastbound manifest approaches a crew change at Bakersfield
along the ex-SP valley line North of downtown Bakersfield. |
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Date: October 31, 2000 Location: ex-SP Depot in
Bakersfield, CA West of Kern Junction
Although SP power is still common, complete sets of SP power have become rare. On
Halloween, the ghosts of SP have brought a complete set of gray and red power through
Bakersfield on a Westbound manifest. Late in the year 2000, some four years since
UP's takeover, photos like this have become harder and harder to come by. |
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Date: March 22, 2000 Location: Woodford
A pair of UP intermodal trains meet at Woodford siding. |
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Date: May 11, 2000 Location: Edison
A Los Angeles bound I-5 corridor intermodal train led by four SP C44-9W's accelerates
out of Bakersfield near Edison. |
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Date: May 11, 2000 Location: Tunnel #3/East of Bealville
Same train as the above photo, approaching Tunnel #3 after passing the siding at
Bealville. |
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Date: July 1981 Location: SP Bakersfield Engine
Terminal near Kern Junction
SP power congregates at Bakersfield near the fueling racks, waiting for aanother call
for duty on Tehachapi. |
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Date: July 1981 Location: SP Bakersfield Yard
near Kern Junction
A GP9 on switching duty pauses under the yard control tower. The tower and shop
building in the background are history, and the pole line in the foreground has now been
replaced by an 8 foot chain link fence. |
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Date: July 11, 1982 Location: Walong
A Westbound SP train drifts downhill approaching Tunnel #9 directly in the middle of
the loop. |
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Date: April 1984 Location: Caliente
Early in its operation, the SP "Oil Cans" approaches Caliente out of the late
afternoon light. |
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Date: August 1986 Location: Sacramento
Locomotive Works
Lines of SP power both awaiting service and freshly shopped sitting quietly on the
storage tracks on the Southeast side of the shop complex. |
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Date: August 13, 1986 Location: Walong
A work train powered by a single Cotton Belt "Tunnel Motor" SD45T-2 slowly
backs down the track above Tunnel #9 on the loop at Walong. |
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Date: August 13, 1986 Location: Walong
In a scene repeated by countless photographers, the head end of a westbound SP train
passes beneath its train on the tracks above Tunnel #9 in the classic over and under loop
photo. |
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Date: March 2, 1999 Location: Helper spur West
of Bena
In a scene dated only by the missing gyralights on the locomotive, SP SD40T-2 #8279
sits in the helper spur at Bena, waiting to help another Eastbound up to the summit of
Tehachapi Pass. With the more widespread of Remote Controlled Distributed Power by
the Union Pacific, the helper spur now sees service mainly as a bad order set out spur. |
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Date: April 15, 1999 Location: Bealville
An Eastbound UP lumber drag powered by two SP SD70M's sits in the siding at Bealville.
Lumber, always one of SP's major shipping commodities, is one product that has been
hauled over Tehachapi Pass since it was built in the 1870's. |
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