Mike Osborne Brakeman On The Southern Pacific LABRF

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Mike Osborne has been working for Southern Pacific, and now Union Pacific, for well over 40 years. As a young Southern Pacific hire, Mike worked the brakeman job on a train called the LABRF, which traversed Tehachapi Pass on its way from Los Angeles to Bakersfield at night.
This video documents Mike's recollections of that job. His storytelling along with the photographs he was able to combine with it paint a great picture of what it was like working on the railroad "back in the day."
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@georgecoles6140 11 дней назад

I worked all over the LA basin...PE jobs , LA to west Colton, East end, To Bakerfield from West Colton over the Cutoff...Wonderful job

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

I remember the conductor usually riding in the front seat next to the carryall driver. However, I do not recall any other particular place the rest of us sat. I always sat in the back whatever brakeman I was.

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

I hired out March 17, 1979. Went to brakeman’s class at the West Colton yard. After that, was put on the LA Brakeman’s extra board. First assignment was the Riverside Local. So many of the jobs were taking a train from Taylor Yard to Colton. Sit around and take a train back to LA. Boring and low pay. Enjoyed the San Luis Obispo run and also would occasionally be augmented to the Colton board for Yuma trips. 197 miles and can be done in under 5 hours on a hot train.

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

I switched from LA to the Bakersfield board and trains to Colton or Fresno. When doing Colton, around Monolith we would put in our Carl’s Jr. order to pick up in Mojave. Yes it was free! Always got the Super Star

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

I only worked the Bakersfield run once. We laid over at the Royal Palms on Union Ave.

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

Another reason to be the head brakeman is that you don’t have to walk the train at meets. Though there were a lot of younger engineers, I did have some old grumpy ones too.

@edmijares1011 Год назад

I grew up down the street from Taylor yard…… I think that’s what sparked my affinity for trains.

@jestocost8210 Год назад

Best trip I ever had from the Shops to Bakersfield, I was on the second unit since we had a fireman and fell asleep before Burbank Jct. and woke up at Caliente. I don't know if we stopped, nor did I care.

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

We don’t always have a fireman but when we do, we prefer a trailing unit! I always liked sitting in the hoghead’s chair and look at the guages

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

Occasionally you’d get a GMC carryall. A lot times when working a satellite yard, there would be no carryall available to return you to Taylor. So you would call a cab, and a clerk at Taylor would pay the driver.

@user-sh9du2nv5y 9 месяцев назад

Great story of your time as a brakeman, my dad was a brakeman for the sp at gemco in the valley and worked on the Northridge switcher, he would tell me simlar stories he also worked the same routes as you in the past, I remember him taking me and my mom up to Taylor yard to the yard office at night to pick up paper work and stuff. I always remember the old candy machine there next to the bulletin boards and the old converted baggage car painted dark gray sitting on a spur track that was used for storing old files of paper for the office storage . You can hear the frogs chirping away in the Los Angeles river, and the huge orange spiders sitting in the center of there webs right out side of the yard office.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Who was your father? I probably know him. Thanks for the memories of Taylor yard.

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

I’ve worked the Gemco job a couple of times off the extra board. GM parts coming in from back east and cars going out.

@hectorguzman8435 6 месяцев назад

Good to hear the old ways and put them into perspective with the current practices we have nowadays coming from LA to Bakersfield.

@stevenphares760 Год назад

HOLEY MOLEY! This is Awesome!

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thanks plug!

@jamesg2609 Год назад

Great video Ozzie.had laugh I once sat in the front seat in the carryall and pissed off John Peterman on a deadhead to Mojave. .Great story about DD Burke using a Berry pistol to call in the rear brakeman .Great narration of the years we spent together on the. Mountain

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Awesome story Dagwood

@edwardgh57 Год назад

Taken this same trip with the Pacific Rail Society in 1970 . I was a 12 year old rail fan, and my parents and a buddy also enjoyed all scenery. Classic streamlined, dome and vending machine cars , was really a cool trip. Sounds of a train ride before continuously welded rail was a fast metronome experience! Thanks for a awesome story.

@TheClosetBranch 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely the best SP video ever!! Please do more of this series.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thanks much

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

A little jiggle with the lantern is the “stretch em” or-and expanding outward motion with hands. Could mention that when cutting in the air you have to tap on the angle cock moving it slowly in little increments until fully open because if you open too fast you big hole the train.

@UPES2018 Год назад

Mike is a great guy, used to work with him at UP… Awesome video, thanks for sharing!

@rimodeler7963 Год назад

Very thorough and interesting description of taking the LABRF over the main line back in the late 1970's. Thank you Mike Osborne for the enjoyable video! Great job!! Mike Armstrong

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thanks Mike

@neanderthal88 8 месяцев назад

Nice narrative Mike........Greg j

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot!

@rodonis88 Год назад

Love to hear more! This gentleman was great at story telling

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Look for more

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

More coming…..

@rodonis88 9 дней назад

@@user-pm2tv2bv7fwhat was your favorite SP power? Your least favorite?

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 9 дней назад

@@rodonis88 anything good! Always liked the 8200 SD40T2s, they were new and might have an operating A/C they always had a smooth ride and you had plenty of room with the large “front porch.” SP also had great large green chairs in those units also. Least favorite anything with a smelly toilet!

@rodonis88 8 дней назад

@@user-pm2tv2bv7f thanks !!

@agraham9356 9 месяцев назад

This was such a nice video..I spent 87 through 90 in Tehachapi and Bakersfield. Very familier with the area.. commuted to LA a lot from Tehachapi..I was working EMS during that time and I did not have that much time to railfan..I am a PTI driver now out of Portola CA. It was neat of you describing what a brakeman does with orders etc. and dark areas.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thanks much

@chineechik 8 месяцев назад

I used to work with old heads who signed on in 1950’s and watched in awe as they didn’t use radios at all. All hand signals. Someone should do a video on hand signals before that art gets forgotten

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 3 месяца назад

I plan on doing one real soon

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

When. I first hired out in 1979, no hand held radios. We use road flares to signal and lanterns at night. In 1981, they finally issued Motorola radios to all brakeman, conductors, engineers, firemen

@tomharris8263 8 месяцев назад

This is a very enjoyable video. Thanks for the post. I worked for ATSF mid to late 70s. Ran between Richmond to Calwa or Calwa to Bakersfield.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thanks, you understand what it was like!

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

Speaking of smoking, I’m on the caboose, have smokes, no matches. So I used fusees. 😮

@bodfish Год назад

That was great. Funny how a lot has changed but a lot of the odd-ball things haven't changed.

@bruceflaws3213 3 месяца назад

Were you describing a running air test? WB trains did this at East Truckee prior to ascending Donner Pass. There was also a dragging equipment detector. Conductors would call the head end and first announce a “dark dragger”, and then the set and release for the running air test.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 22 дня назад

Yes running air brake test

@jestocost8210 Год назад

Great story. Brought a lot of memories.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@spcabforward Год назад

Great story on the LABRF (Los Angeles - Brooklyn "Portland" Forwarder.)

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Glad you like it. Hopefully more to come on TSG

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot.

@GP30RDMT 9 месяцев назад

Really wonderful, thanks for sharing this.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it more to come

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Glad you like it. Keep following TSG

@kathymaznik3218 Год назад

Hi Mike, I am Strube's sister and he wanted me to see your video.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thanks

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Thank you, you have a great brother, a legend the Tinman!

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

Speaking of Taylor Yard anyone here ever work the top end of A yard herder job? Or engineers locker room herder? As a brakeman, I also did switchman jobs when needed. That’s 8 hour shifts

@mels1811 Год назад

Wonderful video

@chuckythedoll4815 Год назад

Models the same thing I do. Very good.😂

@riogrande5761 Год назад

I grew up with the SP in the Davis Sacramento area in the 1970's and early 1980's. I probably graduated from high school about 2 years before Mike. I really wished I would have gone to work for the SP at that time but I didn't. I later traveled to and through the Rockies and got Rio Grande fever but today I am interested in both the SP and Rio Grande. There are some really nice models out on the market now for both railroads for 70's and 80's era modeling. Was that a Dell Taco soda? I haven't seen a Dell Taco since I was last in California years ago. Live in Virginia how, thankfully.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 6 месяцев назад

Yes it was from the Dell

@robertsiebenrock3997 3 месяца назад

Very interesting trip. I worked for the NYC, the PC And B&O. My question is what was the major difference in the SP and UP?

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 3 месяца назад

SP was very lax on the rules. The track is in way better shape on the UP Especially the branch lines.

@anthonygermano9363 8 месяцев назад

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@Herlongian 22 дня назад

HAHT time! Held away from home terminal. Sometimes they didn’t want to pay HAHT time if you were going to be there too long and they would deadhead you home by bus or even carryall

@oldclip70 3 месяца назад

I’m surprised you didn’t work on the PCX train.

@user-pm2tv2bv7f 3 месяца назад

Yes I did work on the PCX train many times This is pre PCX

@oldclip70 3 месяца назад

@@user-pm2tv2bv7f I remember the LABRF. It was hot. But when the PTPCX/LAPCX came out in May 1991 with those brand new GP60’s (I was born and raised in Stockton, CA) I was impressed!!! Thank you for your story. I was an Amtrak conductor.