Union Pacific City of Los Angeles in the 1970's, Los Angeles through Cajon Pass. Includes Coverage of the Last Eastbound Run. California locations at Keene, Riverside, Colton, San Bernardino, Sullivan's Curve, Mormon Rocks and Summit.
My dad worked for the railroad in the early ‘50’s in Chicago when I was a child. As our relatives started moving west, we would take several trips by train to visit, I guess he got special rates and first-class accommodations. I so loved those train trips: exploring the train, sitting for hours watching the country roll by from our bedroom, heading to the observation dining car for meals with linen tablecloths and silver utensils, running to the last car and watching the ribbon of rail speed by. Getting off at the longer stops and running to the front to look at, smell, and hear the drumming of the engines. The colors so bright and vivid. Cokes and snacks in the lounge car, and of course going to bed in a the upper berth and being lulled to sleep by the clickty-clack. That got me hooked on trains and model railroading.
Yeah these sets are a real disaster. Potential disaster in the Tunnel. A Sherman nightmare. Missing signals and derangement. We never exploited to their full potential and had (weak*) knuckle coupler without bumps. That would have been the end for any company that would have run them. They run them like freight trains and had to much combustion. Called it a quit. This is a very high-speed turbo train.
