Western Railroad Discussion > chasing the saugus local today

First I would like to say thanks to the saugus crew for giving the old girl a good coat of makeup sure looks good. the Boss and I didn't get along yesterday so I used a sick day today(COUGH COUGH) so off I went to chase the Saugus local before the local vandals got ahold of it again. 1st shot is the local N/B in sylmar ca approaching CP Balboa on the metrolink I was hopeing they would do some switching at DWP but no luck so off I went to CP portal for the second shot trying to make up for the first. 3rd is the train coming back S/B from saugus where the light so bad so no shots at saugus. 3rd is at CP Honby

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1st another shot of the cab passing by 2nd is the train leaving CP Portal Southbound 3rd is the train S/B at CP balboa/roxford

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One more cab shot. next I ran off to catch the reverse move back onto the coast line back to gemco yard where I ran into this overpass in burbank ca that I have wanted to shoot for awhile , Thanks for sharing my sick day

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Good shots. Always nice to see a caboose on the end--glad you concentrated several shots to it.
Brian Stevens

Wow, SP 4612 looks great! Nice series of shots, Tim.

Thanks for sharing,

~Ryan

If memory serves me correctly, it was the Gemco crews that painted the caboose? Can someone closer to the action confirm? Nice to see the graffiti bandits/artists have not taken over and undone the nice paint job.

Josiah

Cajon92 Wrote:
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> Wow, SP 4612 looks great! Nice series of shots,
> Tim.
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> Thanks for sharing,
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> ~Ryan

Pic 9: KILLER alignment!
...Lorenzo

Love the pics! As much as I hate getting stuck in traffic over that pass each week, it's nice to see the trains once in a while pop through.
The caboose was indeed repainted by the crews last month. It coincided with one of the crew member's retirement/party at the Gemco Depot.

Great series, that last shot is Fantastic!

I like Pic 6!!!

#9 is fantastic, great job. Love the new paint job, but it doesn't have enough grime to match what I remember seeing as a kid. :)

Nathan

Nice paint job.


...now for those geeps...hmm...

Josiah Wrote:
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> If memory serves me correctly, it was the Gemco
> crews that painted the caboose? Can someone
> closer to the action confirm? Nice to see the
> graffiti bandits/artists have not taken over and
> undone the nice paint job.
>
> Josiah
>
> Cajon92 Wrote:
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> > Wow, SP 4612 looks great! Nice series of shots,
> > Tim.
> >
> > Thanks for sharing,
> >
> > ~Ryan

yes they did... StarshipConductor (before he retired) and a few others..