Steam & Excursion > Splitting The Semaphores At This Scenic Location In 1950!

The Southern Pacific often used Odell Lake on the Natron Cutoff in their advertising brochures. SP new how to take advantage of the line they built that skirted along the shores of this beautiful lake located between Klamath Falls and Eugene in Oregon.

By September 1950 when he snapped this photo, Bert Ward had been working for the SP for nearly 2 years as a conductor on "The Hill" as this line was known to SP crews. This day Bert has brought his trusty 616 camera to work with him to record some of the daily action.

Here he has caught SP 4-8-4 #4461 at Odell Lake on the first section of train #20. All in all, not a bad view of his daily surroundings.


Martin



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/17 03:12 by LoggerHogger.

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That is a great shot!

One question. Was this Absolute Block signaling with a hand throw switch for the siding the train is passing? TIA

Labby Wrote:
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> One question. Was this Absolute Block signaling
> with a hand throw switch for the siding the train
> is passing? TIA

In this picture, it is Automatic Block signaling wired in the "overlap" scheme. I can't see the switch, but if there was one, it would be of the hand-throw variety.

On the Springfield Subdivision there were two locations, Cruzatte and Frazier, that had local-controlled interlocking, and a few other sidings with spring switches.

That makes sense to me. Thank you very much.

Looks like a great day at the office.!

Looks to be all mail except for a few passenger cars on the rear.

Todd Clark
Canyon Country, CA
Trainorders.com

I love those naked GS's almost as much as the MT's. Thanks for all of your great post's.
Jerry