Southern California Rail Journal 2011
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We’ll visit Tehachapi and Beaumont Hill, the Salton Sea and Winterhaven near the Arizona border and Cajon Pass during snowstorms and sunny days.
We invite you to join us on this exciting journey that will take you from the high desert to winter snow scenes. All six of Union Pacific’s Heritage Units make an appearance including two of Amtrak’s Heritage Units.
Stretching across the mountains and deserts of Arizona, the Santa Fe mainline is a double-tracked ribbon of high-density railroading at its finest.
Travel back to 1994, prior to the Santa Fe merger with Burlington Northern, and explore Santa Fe’s San Bernardino Subdivision in Southern California.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe was one of America’s great railroads. It survives today as part of the giant BNSF system. But not that long ago it was independent.
Experience one of the busiest and most scenic railroad routes in Northern California, the Shasta Division of the Southern Pacific. The Valley and Black Butte Districts host a daily parade of trains.
Featuring one of the most dramatically exciting side-by-side steam locomotives scenes ever staged: UP 8444 and SP 4449 running on the parallel tracks leading up Cajon Pass.
At 7,440 feet, the crest of the Wasatch Plateau in Utah is the fifth highest railroad pass on a US transcontinental mainline. Assaulting the steep grades of Soldier Summit takes brute force horsepower.
Union Pacific’s mighty 844, leading an A-B-A set of E-units and 18 matched passenger cars, made one last extraordinary trip through the Royal Gorge and over Tennessee Pass prior to UP’s closing of this historic line.
SP’s busy San Joaquin Subdivision runs through the agricultural heartland of California’s Central Valley. This important North-South route helps link Los Angeles and Portland Oregon, and provides plenty of fantastic train watching spots.
Not your everyday fare, the sighting of a Special (special trains and extraordinary movements) are rare treats for the eager rail enthusiast. The scenic slopes of Cajon Pass, provides the ideal setting for these exotic sights.
The vaults of the Southern Pacific provided a treasury of vintage footage to Pentrex, enough for two outstanding shows now combined on one DVD.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of 40-year old GP9, SD7, and SD9 diesel locomotives moving freight over Southern Pacific’s Central California mainlines and branch lines in the 1990s.
SP&S 700’s shiny black paint and yellow lettering dazzled young and old alike as she traveled between Vancouver, Washington and Spokane.
Steam ruled the rails in Sacramento when the California State Railroad Museum hosted Railfair ’99 and the NRHS and R&LHS scheduled their national conventions in Sacramento to coincide with the event.
In pre-merger days the Southern Pacific ran a nonstop parade of trains across its Sunset Route and one of the most scenic stretches was the Lordsburg District between Tucson, Arizona and Lordsburg, New Mexico.
Deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas, the hard working steam locomotives of the Texas State Railroad put on thrilling performances. With their stacks barking out steady cadences, the toiling engines carry their passenger trains uphill and down, across 25 miles of picturesque terrain.
To railfans, ‘street running” brings to mind images of long trains operating down busy city streets while traffic swerves to avoid disastrous collisions. Let’s look at 22 of these locations around the country.
Here’s your opportunity to sit back and enjoy an entire day’s activity at what some say is the busiest all-freight railroad junction in the world – Union Pacific’s Gibbon Junction.
Trains rattle across the diamonds at Rochelle, Illinois, where the double tracks of the Union Pacific and the double tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks intersect.
The third volume on our popular ‘sunrise/Sunset” series takes you to the busy triple-track mainline at Cincinnati, Ohio, where 12 routes radiating in and out of town are squeezed through a funnel called Winton Place.
At Fullerton in Southern California, Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliners, Metrolink trains, BNSF freights and Locals glide past the platforms one after the other, sometimes with mere minutes between arrivals and departures.
Perhaps the busiest interlocking tower in the western U.S., with an average of over 100 movements in a 24 hour period, was Tower 55 located in Ft. Worth
Union Pacific 844 and Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotives make history by double-heading for the first time ever between Tacoma and Everett.
Flanking the western shore of the upper Mississippi River runs Canadian Pacific’s River Subdivision, a busy main line that supports a non stop flow of traffic.
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