thank you for this great video from the seventies of the Santa fee railway this video brought back memories for me , My father was a locomotive engineer for the Canadian national railways i have had many rides on locomotives from F3s to sd-40-2s when i was young along with many ho scale train layouts my father gave me books from emd about many locomotives cn operated i have one on the f-7 ,gp-9 ,sw-1200rs and others again thank you for this video that brought back so many memories for me about my father who has passed a way Thank you Bruce
What a GREAT TREASURE!!! There is one correction that must be mentioned for the sake of accuracy. The Flagstaff Arizona scene showing the passenger train headed east was claimed to be the Super Chief. This is incorrect, the Super Chief never ran with a full dome car. Secondly there would have been more Pullman cars behind the diner. Thirdly, the time of day is also wrong as it is shown in the late morning sun, the Super went through Flagstaff around sunrise. The train shown at this point is the eastbound San Francisco Chief. Thanks for posting I look forward to more!!
Fantastic post! Virgil shot 16mm film. That was expensive. Same producer also had Virgil film on, Western Pacific’s - Feather River Canyon Route. Totally worth it, as well.
I love this.video. My dad and I wanted to ride the San Francisco Chief to Chicago. But it was too late, Amtrak had taken over Both the Chief and Western Pacific s California Zephyr were gone.So we were left taking my beloved Southern Pacific. It still was a great trip!
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29:00: A longstanding tradition: Santa Fe re-sprayed silver paint on the loco's underbody and pilot between trips. You can see a little overspray on the loco's nose below the cigar band. A real class act. The busses you see carried psgrs to and from Oakland and San Francisco. Santa Fe quit running into Oakland years earlier.
At .20 in the intro looks like Jack McClure, the father of Rod McClure. Both worked for the Western Pacific(Rod later with the UP). Both have passed away(Jack in 1996, Rod in 2016).
The Santa Fe San Francisco train, was not that familiar to me. What a circuitous route. Thanks for posting and great information. Looked up a number of towns like Grant, Los Lunas and Pinole that it went through.
I was assigned to an Engineering field party doing survey work at Richmond in late 1979 for 4 months. I lived in Pinole. Although I never went to the depot, I remember it well, also at that time, the semaphores donated the signal apparatus along that part of the Valley Division
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Many of the F units still operate today as CF7 Road Switchers. Santa Fe sent their F units to their Cleburne, Texas shops (Cleburne is what the C stands for) and converted them there.
Thank you for the great film footage. I am sorry that your friends had to experience the chiggers. I have been there and it most certainly is extremely irritating and painful.
Mi amigo, Roberto! No puedo a hablar el Portuguese. I hope you can translate this poor try to answer. Always try. You are with friends here. These videos are great, and such a wonderful record of the Santa Fe railroad in the Central California valley. I also worked in Arizona and New Mexico for the Santa Fe
It was a good video, but unfortunately the camera man jus stayed focus on them locos and caboose, who cares, I wish he'd knock it off, good GREIF!!! It woulda been nice to get them all kinds of rolling stock INCLUDING the new cargo of cars, trucks, vans. My god it was a pretty sloppy clip to say the least. 😭😭
I can't honestly believe you made the comment about half century old home footage. Wow: do you complain about black and white footage from 100 years ago not being in color too?
@@turbod1 @turbod1 excellent video, really good footage. Lady at 27:56 - she seems to pop up in the footage here and there, I guess she was known to the cameraman? Pretty good camera quality: some could almost could be 35mm
