Railroaders' Nostalgia > Trains and crews on SP Coast Line - April 1980

This is a repost from several years ago. There are a few ex-SP guys now on TO that probably never saw this when I first posted it several years ago:


Eb's on April 4th arriving Los Angeles from San Luis Obispo

9304 East - #836 - 79 loads, 43 empties, 8430 tons, 7779 feet (big train for the coast)
Conductor: Michael
Engineer: T. Ware

9107 East - #830 - 44 loads, 2 empties, 3325 tons, 4203 feet
Conductor: J. Irons
Engineer: D. Walker

8761 East - #832 - 49 loads, 61 empties, 5848 tons, 6447 feet
Conductor: Binion
Engineer: Gaffney (aka "Dangerous Dan")

9093 East - 1/834 - 83 loads, 7 empties, 7721 tons, 5072 feet
Conductor: Hudson
Engineer: J. Horne (pronounced without the "e")

9293 East - 2/834 - 50 loads, 55 empties, 6599 tons, 6340 feet
Conductor: Zukerman
Engineer: Clutts


Wb's April 4th for San Luis Obispo (as departed either from Taylor Yard or LATC)

9319 West - LAOAF - 48 loads, 5 empties, 3718 tons, 4051 feet
Conductor: Fagan
Engineer: B. Bray

9124 West - LAOAY - 58 loads, 61 empties, 7462 tons, 6908 feet
Conductor: C. McCallister
Engineer: D. Nelson (#1 - Dan)

9001 West - LAOAK - 38 loads, 55 empties, 5159 tons, 5714 feet
Conductor: R. Smith
Engineer: T. Ware (Tommy Ware off duty 5:10am, back on duty 1:35pm at Taylor Yard)

8309 West - LAWJY - 39 loads, 98 empties, 6696 tons, 7878 feet
Conductor: Kluck
Engineer: K. Waage


Wb's April 11th

8952 West - WCOAY - 25 loads, 64 empties, 5027 tons, 5646 feet
Conductor: Fagan
Engineer: McEntire

8317 West - LAOAF - 67 loads, 1 empty, 5553 tons, 6414 feet
Conductor: C. McCallister
Engineer: W. Togni

9061 West - LAOAY - 52 loads, 46 empties, 6473 tons, 5386 feet
Conductor: J. Blakeman
Engineer: Clutts

9156 West - LAWJY - 52 loads, 89 empties, 8082 tons, 7924 feet
Conductor: Kluck
Engineer: Jenkins


Wb's April 12th

9251 West - WCOAY - 30 loads, 63 empties, 5298 tons, 5984 feet
Conductor: Kadlubowski
Engineer: C. McBride

8862 West - LAOAF - 60 loads, 2 empties, 4345 tons, 5104 feet
Conductor: A. Broda
Engineer: B. Bray

8653 West - LAOAY - 47 loads, 49 empties, 4997 tons, 5443 feet
Conductor: J. Irons
Engineer: Adams

9040 West - LAWJY - 26 loads, 93 empties, 5757 tons, 6895 feet
Conductor: Hudson
Engineer: D. Custer ("DQ")


Eb's April 13th

9049 East - #836 (OALAK) - 61 loads, 36 empties, 6553 tons, 5858 feet
Conductor: J. Blakeman
Engineer: Clutts

8911 East - #830 - 39 loads, 43 empties, 4358 tons, no footage listed
Conductor: Fagan
Engineer: J. Horne

8955 East - #832 - 48 loads, 46 empties. 5713 tons, 5558 feet
Conductor: A. Broda
Engineer: Jenkins

8746 East - #834 - 48 loads, 58 empties, 6134 tons, 6403 feet
Conductor: J. Irons
Engineer: D. Duceshi


Wb's April 17th

8308 West - WCOAY - 30 loads, 72 empties, 5374 tons, 5933 feet
Conductor: Zukerman
Engineer: R. McCarthy

9218 West - LAOAF - 52 loads, 3 empties, 3667 tons, 5144 feet
Conductor: R. Smith
Engineer: A. Woronovich (aka "Mad Dog")

8482 West - LAWJY - 1 load, 95 empties, 3311 tons, 5564 feet
Conductor: L. Arnson
Engineer: C. McBride


Eb's April 18th

9118 East - #836 - 26 loads, 56 empties, 4669 tons, 5450 feet
Conductor: Carter
Engineer: K. Waage

9356 East - #830 - 49 loads, 1 empty, 3416 tons, 4827 feet
Conductor: Zukerman
Engineer: D. Duceshi (aka "Duke")

9392 East - 1/832 - 72 loads, 11 empties, 6492 tons, 5174 feet
Conductor: R. Smith
Engineer: M. Rolls

9373 East - 2/832 - 32 loads, 34 empties, 4069 tons, 3846 feet
Conductor: Kadlubowski
Engineer: A. Woronovich

9109 East - #834 - 27 loads, 19 empties, 2830 tons, 2797 feet
Conductor: Hudson
Engineer: J. Guerin


Wb's April 20th

9353 West - LAOAY - 70 loads, 36 empties, 7249 tons, 5951 feet
Conductor: Hudson
Engineer: Adams

9365 West - LAOAF - 65 loads, 6 empties, 4860 tons, 5887 feet
Conductor: Tangen
Engineer: McEntire

9190 West - WCOAY - 21 loads, 66 empties, 4930 tons, 6189 feet
Conductor: Hadley
Engineer: V. Cipolla (aka "The Godfather")

9345 West - 2/LAOAY - 46 loads, 40 empties, 5199 tons, 4953 feet
Conductor: Zukerman
Engineer: M. Kies

9400 West - LAWJY - 31 loads, 90 empties, 6450 tons, 7092 feet
Conductor: L. Arnson
Engineer: B. Bray


Wb's April 22nd

9400 West - LAOAY - 42 loads, 52 empties, 5971 tons, 5809 feet
Conductor: C. McCallister
Engineer: C. McBride

9296 West - 1/LAOAF - 54 loads, 1 empty, 4488 tons, 4631 feet
Conductor: Kluck
Engineer: J. Benson

8412 West - WCOAY - 13 loads, 77 empties, 4296 tons, 5692 feet
Conductor: A. Broda
Engineer: D. Gaffney

9137 West - 2/LAOAF - 68 loads, 1 empty, 4904 tons, 5759 feet
Conductor: J. Irons
Engineer: J. Guerin


Wb's April 26th

7926 West - WCOAY - 19 loads, 75 empties, 4418 tons, 5765 feet
Conductor: J. Irons
Engineer: K. Waage

9317 West - LAOAF - 79 loads, 2 empties, 5944 tons, 7030 feet
Conductor: Kalubowski
Engineer: E. Hull

8311 West - 1/LAOAY - 59 loads, 36 empties, 6488 tons, 5690 feet
Conductor: Hudson
Engineer: V. Cipolla

9323 West - LAWJY - 25 loads, 97 empties, 5952 tons, 7016 feet
Conductor: Tangen
Engineer: C. McBride

9403 West - 2/LAOAY - 46 loads, 44 empties, 6399 tons, 4795 feet
Conductor: Hadley
Engineer: J. Benson


Eb's April 27th (no more train numbers for coast eb's...)

9138 East - OAWCY - 50 loads, 60 empties, 6425 tons, 6483 feet
Conductor: L. Arnson
Engineer: R. McCarthy

9278 East - GULAP - 19 loads, 16 empties, 2285 tons, 2257 feet
Conductor: A. Broda
Engineer: D. Custer

9264 East - OALAT - 52 loads, 33 empties, 5286 tons, no footage listed
Conductor: C. McCallister
Engineer: D. Duceshi

9159 East - 1/OALAY - 36 loads, 37 empties, 4022 tons, 4628 feet
Conductor: J. Irons
Engineer: E. Hull

9189 East - 2/OALAY - 41 loads, 57 empties, 5616 tons, no footage listed
Conductor: Kluck
Engineer: D. Nelson (#1)



Allen



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/15 10:21 by bradleymckay.

Now there are some names I haven't heard in a long time!

Brian Black
Retired SP/UP Conductor

tehachcond Wrote:
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> Now there are some names I haven't heard in a long
> time!
>
> Brian Black
> Retired SP/UP Conductor


Kluck and Clutts...what a couple of last names! I believe by summer 1981 Clutts retired and Kluck was working 13 and 14. What I don't remember is if both were from SLO.


Allen

GK Kluck, so you can figure out what his nickname was. (Hint, nothing to do with his initials, think poultry.)

WAG and I were out testing on a nice warm morning in early summer, and set up to watch Kluck's crew when they went in at Honda to meet a Westbound. Stopped in the clear at 9am, after being on duty 2 1/2 hours. We watched the caboose for half an hour from a hilltop, and after nobody walked the train, we went down to have a talk.

Found the conductor asleep on the bunk, and the brakeman eating his lunch in the bay window on the ocean side. Kluck said he was sick, and after a half hour talk, Bill asked the brakeman "...if he was EVER going to walk the train?" He said "well I didn't know you still wanted me to."

They worked 12 hours to LA, Kluck didn't lay off and worked back, so the sick comment didn't hold much water at the investigation...

Honda is VAFB property. How did you get in?

The SP had two of the accounting contract numbers for bumper stickers. One was charged to the M of W maintenance account, the other was charged to the operating department for coordination of the missle launches with trains.

Getting a sticker required a letter from the responsible person on the railroad to the base security. All of the telegraphers and clerks at Surf had stickers because it was much shorter from Surf to Guadalupe via Vandenberg than via Lompoc.

So how did I get in? I wrote myself a letter, as I was the contract person. And yes, I wrote Bill one too!

Everyone on that list is retired or deceased except for one engineer...

WAF Wrote:
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> Honda is VAFB property. How did you get in?


Bill Giles and George were the Trainmaster and Asst. trainmaster's on the SLO district, Wes. Bills office was SLO and George's was Surf.


V

SLOCONDR

Over my 35 year career with SP/UP, I worked with a majority of these guys...both on passenger and freight. There are so many stories I could tell, it would fill a book.
One name that stands out is Harold Clutts, whose RR nickname was "Stress Tester"...for obvious reasons. LOL! I fired for him on the Oxnard Local back in the 80's when things got slow in L.A. He and his wife lived in a motor home with a herd of cats behind the roundhouse facilities at Oxnard yard for years.

spengr80 Wrote:
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> Over my 35 year career with SP/UP, I worked with a
> majority of these guys...both on passenger and
> freight. There are so many stories I could tell,
> it would fill a book.
> One name that stands out is Harold Clutts, whose
> RR nickname was "Stress Tester"...for obvious
> reasons. LOL! I fired for him on the Oxnard Local
> back in the 80's when things got slow in L.A. He
> and his wife lived in a motor home with a herd of
> cats behind the roundhouse facilities at Oxnard
> yard for years.


don;t forget he lived in the motorhome parked along the Coast Hwy at Seacliff.

When I was working with Stress Tester, he was living in Oxnard Yard...couldn't beat the cheap rent...FREE!