Nostalgia & History > Crew change at Yermo, Ca

February 1984...although with the looks the outbound crew is giving this photographer...you'd think they were upto no good ;-)

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I don't think that's Daggett I think thats Yermo

Wow! When was the last time you saw a Chevy Citation?

ats90mph Wrote:
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> I don't think that's Daggett I think thats Yermo

aarggh...I think you're right...sorry for the error...let me correct it...Thanks.

The engineer is a good friend of mine, Howard Cordova, the guy giving you the dirty looks getting in the Chevy, was the Trainmaster, I think this was Leo Seloga (he passed away a couple of years after this was taken). I don't recall who the brakeman and conductor are though. Nice to see the people side of railroading, even if they are giving you dirty looks!-Brian

As a side note, they used those Chevy Citations for awhile, but boy did they get thrashed! We had one Trainmaster in LA who hit a carmans tow motor and totaled the Chevy. We always had a chuckle when we went by it, as they let it sit where it died for months on end.-BMT

Those guys on the ground look like Barnaby Jones just caught them!!

Neat shot and good eye Brian. I thought maybe that was taken in LA as I remember all of the Chevy Citations used in the yard there. I don't remember them in Yermo? Man, did they go through tires. I went airborne with Dave Scott in a Citation while driving along 203 and the mainline one day.
Last time I saw a Citation was probably around the last time I saw a Vega.

GreenFlag Wrote:
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> Neat shot and good eye Brian. I thought maybe that
> was taken in LA as I remember all of the Chevy
> Citations used in the yard there. I don't remember
> them in Yermo? Man, did they go through tires. I
> went airborne with Dave Scott in a Citation while
> driving along 203 and the mainline one day.
> Last time I saw a Citation was probably around the
> last time I saw a Vega.



Hey now, I was raised out of the back seat of your typical blend-Jane white Citation. This was when being crowded with both the sister and two cousins before the invent of the Minivan...