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Nostalgia & History > Santa Fe at Daggett on the other railroad!Date: 04/22/14 16:04 Santa Fe at Daggett on the other railroad! Author: SP8595 Back in September of 1984 under overcast skies, Santa Fe SD40-2 "snoot" 5134 leads 2 more Santa Fe SD40-2's with a Union Pacific SD40-2 spliced in between them, out of UP's Yermo yard and toward the Santa Fe main line at Daggett.
The going away shot showing the power heading into the sharp curve at the end of the UP line and also visible is the UP milepost at the right hand side of the picture. This train was a unit coal train and since the cars are rotary dump hoppers, I am assuming it was an export train heading down towards the port at Long Beach. I guess the Santa Fe engines were just paying back horsepower hours owed to the UP. Date: 04/22/14 17:22 Re: Santa Fe at Daggett on the other railroad! Author: 3rdswitch Nice catch. Unimportant but just as info both the ports of LA and Long Beach had rotary dumpers so "could" have been either. In the eighties I have quite a few shots of San Pedro bound UP export coal trains. Always amazed me that they put such a sharp curve in the middle of the desert!
JB Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/22/14 17:25 by 3rdswitch. Date: 04/22/14 23:42 Re: Santa Fe at Daggett on the other railroad! Author: oilcan Never seen a lash up like that on those rails. Extremely rare catch for sure! I can just smell that monsoonal desert air in those pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Date: 04/23/14 00:15 Re: Santa Fe at Daggett on the other railroad! Author: aronco That may have been a coal train loaded in Utah destined St. Johns Arizona for the Coronado Power Plant. In the plants first few years of operation, there was a regular movement of coal from Utah to Eastern Arizona to supplement the coal coming from around Gallup, New Mexico.
Norm Norman Orfall Helendale, CA TIOGA PASS, a private railcar Date: 04/23/14 02:05 Re: Santa Fe at Daggett on the other railroad! Author: Evan_Werkema aronco Wrote:
> That may have been a coal train loaded in Utah > destined St. Johns Arizona for the Coronado Power > Plant. Yes, those look like SRPX (Salt River Project) gons. See this old thread: http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1775947 bradleymckay noted another SRPX movement through Daggett with pooled ATSF/UP power in August 1984 in this old thread: http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2390314 Date: 04/23/14 07:00 Re: Santa Fe at Daggett on the other railroad! Author: Cajon92 Nice catch and nice shots. Good to see some older images from you again :-)
~Ryan Date: 04/23/14 14:20 Re: Santa Fe at Daggett on the other railroad! Author: ProAmtrak Great shots, and I was thinking the Kaiser Steel was the destination for that train!
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