Passenger Trains > San Joaquin Deja Vue

For those of us who have been shooting the San Joaquin for a long time, seeing the new cabbage cars show up along with sets of single level Comet cars was like seeing a blast from the past, as illustrated by the second photo, taken by the late Rob Carlson of CalTrain F40PH-2 919 racing north on the Santa Fe through east Empire in 1990. Engineers hated this unit because it used blended braking. (© KPR Media Services, all rights reserved)

The first photo is of a current San Joaquin consist utilizing the unpowered cab car painted in the original CalTrain paint scheme. (© KPR Media Services, all rights reserved)

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CrudPunko Wrote:
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> Engineers hated this unit because it used blended
> braking.

To the contrary, before being rebuilt in 1999, Caltrain's F40s /lacked/ blended (and dynamic) braking.