Nostalgia & History > "Beats" on the Move - Espee-in-Tehachapi

Southern Pacific extra east lead by 5312 with sugar beats in tow makes its way through Tehachapi Loop on September 10th, 1972! Also a photo of spring colors from the area and period!

Espee-in-Tehachapi (May 4th-6th, 2017) has the dispatchers line up together, many great presentations and slide show programs from the following people: 

- Brian Black: Southern California in the 60's LA area - Beaumont Hill, Tehachapi, and Cajon Pass.
- Greg Stadter: Railfanning 404 while going to law school in the early 70's at West Colton.
- Bill Roberts: Trackside at Tehachapi and Trona with a few other goodies!
- Peter Baumhefner & Bruce Jones: Wasting our Early Lives on Tehacapi" with Burbank, Bakersfield, Kern Jct., and Mojave throw in back in the late 60's to mid 70's.
- Jim Aktins: How in the hell those searchlight signals and CTC worked!
- Mike Jarvel and Bo Golson: "Mex-E-Co" - they'll take us south of the border where markers are still used.
- Jamie Schmidt: When my dad first took me to the "Loop" in 65'!
- Tom Gildersleeve, Gorgon Glattenberg, and Hank Mills will show us what trains were all about for 20 years starting in the mid-fifties... Hang on!
- Glen Icanberry: We'll hop in Glen's 1971 Pontiac LeMans, Nikons with Kodachrome 25, and chase the Visalia Electric in the valley in the early 80's!
- Rod Loder: Pulling out the classic SD-45 shots of the Espee from Portland to the Salton Sea in California. The locomotive that was the backbone of the railroad!
- Wade Pellizzer: Let us go camping by the tracks in California during the 1970s and sharing stories about his private car the "Virginia City" - All Aboard! 
Find registration and infomration on the website at: Espee-in-Tehachapi!

"Highball the main!" - Rodney the Usher

 

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Tehachapi just isn't the same without the SP........And the Santa Fe.

Or the Pony Express, the stagecoach, and the Indians....

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

...or old US Route 466 thru downtown Techachapi!

Great shots!

Thanks for posting them!

Or the "Beware of rattlesnakes" sign by the old Tehachapi overlook.

Out

bEEts

Both shots are wonderful, but the flowers in the second are stunning.

SP2541
Wrecked & Retired

Awesome pair!