Nostalgia & History > UP odds n' ends

1-2. GP9 305 on a transfer run into SP's Taylor Yard, Los Angeles. 10/27/67 For me, having grown up around here, this captures what the yard and adjacent San Fernando Road looked like back then.

3. UP 3300W at Del Mar, CA, 8/7/96. Can't recall why this train was on the Surf Line.

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4. Back in caboose days, a UP westbound comes down Cajon Pass, around Ono. 5/16/73

5. Six-month old C30-7 2505 with an eastbound ascending Cajon Pass. 2/15/81

6. C30-7 2433W passing through San Bernardino, CA station. 11/22/84

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masterphots Wrote:
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> 3. UP 3300W at Del Mar, CA, 8/7/96. Can't recall
> why this train was on the Surf Line.

Probably en route to the 1996 GOP convention in San Diego?

hotrail Wrote:
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> > 3. UP 3300W at Del Mar, CA, 8/7/96. Can't
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> > why this train was on the Surf Line.
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> Probably en route to the 1996 GOP convention in
> San Diego?

Gotta be it, thanks

Smoggy days in Boss Angeles... (91 KHJ!)- THX for the memories...Steve

Thanks for sharing a super series. Those first two shots are great, the autos and scrap gons, what more could you ask for.

Kent in Carmel Valley

the_expediter Wrote:
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> Smoggy days in Boss Angeles... (91 KHJ!)- THX for
> the memories...Steve

KHJ was 93.

Leapin Lizards...you're right...93 KHJ...what do I know...living in San Diego area!- Steve

the_expediter Wrote:
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> Leapin Lizards...you're right...93 KHJ...what do I
> know...living in San Diego area!- Steve

Listening to that Mexican Radio!

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> Listening to that Mexican Radio!

Listenin' to Wolfman Jack!

masterphots Wrote:

> 1-2. GP9 305 on a transfer run into SP's Taylor
> Yard, Los Angeles. 10/27/67

It started out as a GP9, but from the looks of that fat stack ahead of the dynamic brake blister, it's been fitted with a turbo and upgraded to a GP20. Strack's site indicates EMD did the retrofit on this one, rather than the UP shops. http://www.utahrails.net/articles/up-gp9-turbo.php

In photo #1, with the UP305 heading up the west main towards the main line tower, sits the Bethlehem Steel local, waiting to enter "A" yard at Taylor. Even that rear brakeman looks familiar, don't you think, SteamJocky?



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SLOCONDR

Always wondered if any gons had to have hi-wide papers as they aged.......

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> masterphots Wrote:
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> > 1-2. GP9 305 on a transfer run into SP's
> Taylor
> > Yard, Los Angeles. 10/27/67
>
> It started out as a GP9, but from the looks of
> that fat stack ahead of the dynamic brake blister,
> it's been fitted with a turbo and upgraded to a
> GP20. Strack's site indicates EMD did the
> retrofit on this one, rather than the UP shops.
> http://www.utahrails.net/articles/up-gp9-turbo.php

Thanks for the update. I should've looked at Don's book.