Western Railroad Discussion > The Circus Visits Cajon!

This afternoon, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey "Blue" Circus Train headed up from San Diego on its way to Oakland, powered by a pair of clean 7700-series ES44DC's, and a pair of UP AC's, one AC4400CW and a AC44/60CW convertible. I caught the Eastbound train meeting a westbound doublestack at the new bridges at Grand Terrace, through the curves between Baseline and Ono, and at Verdemont, where I left the train, as light in the pass was dying rapidly. The full video is online on my YouTube channel, under the name "HD: San Bernardino and Cajon Subdivision Railfanning in July and August 2014". The first picture is at Ono, and the second one is at Verdemont.

Cheers,

Zach
www.z-trains.com
Railfanjunction on YouTube

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Is that a new overpass for Palm Ave. at Verdemont?

Adam

Nice video. I still do not like the left/right combo to get across the new bridges.

BTW, sounds like the circus train needs some new wheels on some of their cars.

CPRR Wrote:
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> Nice video. I still do not like the left/right
> combo to get across the new bridges.

IIRC I believe the new bridges are only temporary

where are the animals?

iliketrains Wrote:
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> where are the animals?

If you're referring to the 4-legged variety, they are in the FIRST FOUR CARS behind the locomotives. ATTACHED is a photo I took of the Red Unit's stock cars with an elephant sticking its trunk out -- taken in Savanah, Il. way back in the early 1990's when I was a stagehand on that unit. (That's the other show, now in Texas.) Both trains have FOUR stock cars, usually up front next to the engines during train-runs.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/12/14 14:11 by rbx551985.

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nice work

Very nice video!

Tiger

Nice video my man!