Love it, I was a Senior in HS and took every opportunity to railfan SP and Santa Fe at Mojave since I went to school there, even during the week of my graduation, nice video
Santa Fe FP45 96 met her faith under the scrapper's toruch after the 1994 Cajon Runaway Rear end Collision along with B40-8w 576, F45 5976 and GP60M 144.
I loved going through Tehachapi growing up, looking for those blue and yellow engines growing up, the red and silver were okay too. Hate those orange and black things now.
And at 10:20 in the intermodal train a foretaste of what would be coming in the years ahead for the Tehachapi Line - Burlington Northern Santa Fe aka BNSF.
I should really come out to Tehachapi Loop!!! However, since I live in Seattle, it would be about 2 or 3 days. Probably worth it, though! I've seen the Iron Triangle in Ohio, though. That was cool! I also need to see the UP Bailey Yard in Nebraska.
Tehachapi Loop was a great place to spend a day or two. Unfortunately it's no longer accessable to the public, at least by car. Been that way for over 10 years.
This was back in the days when it was interesting to be a railfan. Nowadays, it's mostly modern wide cab locomotives pulling mostly container trains, sometimes with locomotive cut into the consist in DPU mode.
Not gonna dispute the lack of variety in motive power and paint schemes but there's still a ton of non-containerized freight on the rails. Varies depending on where you are, of course.
@@beeble2003 There's still mostly containerized freight in California due to Oakland and Long Beach ports nearby. See a lot more variety in the US Midwest, though.
These are the locomotives that I'v seen are built (Exept SP EMD SD40T-2, ATSF SD45 #5383, ATSF GE U30CG #8058, and ATSF Rebuilt EMD SD45-2u) SP EMD SD40T-2 #8386: June 1979 SP EMD GP40-2 #7667: March 1980 SP Rebuilt EMD SD40R #7369: April 1966 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8310: February 1978 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8550: January 1979 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8275: June 1980 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8381: May 1979 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8547: January 1979 ATSF EMD SD40-2 #5066: April 1979 ATSF EMD SD40-2 #5118: October 1979 ATSF Rebuilt EMD SD40u #5002: April 1966 ATSF EMD FP45 #96: December 1967 ATSF Rebuilt EMD GP30u #2701: April 1962
A little confused. Are you saying that you have seen all those locomotives before? I used to know a guy that kept a log that went back to UP turbines. Also, I think ATSF #8058 is a C30-7. Thanks for the comment.
That was mostly because clean locomotives don't perform any better then dirty ones. So as far as SP was concerned the money that would have needed to be spent to maintain aesthetics and keep the equipment clean wasn't going to yield any financial return. Just money spent for no justifiable reason during an era when SP was fighting hard to dig themselves out of the financial hole they were in all throughout the 80's and into the early 90's. Any money they could scrape up was already spent trying to keep the motive power running to begin with; not necessarily looking it's best. The irony being that while ATSF's power was kept cleaner, it still didn't buy them much more time since before the 90's came to an end the ATSF would be gone too. The 90's really were a decade of hell for railroading. We went from the big seven to the big four and those that survived the 90's ran head first into the financial downfalls of the 2000's just to add insult to injury. Sad to say but had the big seven not been merged down to the big four some of those original seven would have left the 90's just to die in the 2000's. If you can't beat your competition or survive on your own, you merge. Railroading 101...
@@Henry5623 I know that it was all about the politics of making money in railroading and stiff competition, as well as the logistics. But as a young man growing up in the 70' and the 80's, and seeing the espee in a better time and condition, it made my heart sad to see it fade away literally to black. I hold fond memories of a better time when I knew little about life, but my heart would race when I heard a train coming. I would not trade my memories of train watching as a kid, for all the money in the world. Long live all the fallen flags that made us love trains!
