Nostalgia & History > SD-40T2's and "Locotrol"......

SP SD-40T2's 8300 Master and 8352 Slave, on Cajon, May, 1975......

Enjoy!

Bob

ATSF100WEST......Out

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Nice shot! I especially like your framing, with the data added below, great touch. Jan Austin

......for the kind words. I add the border and text in "Photoshop".

Take Care,

Bob

ATSF100WEST......Out

Great pics, sucks SP had to get rid of the remotes after that bad wreck they had in the Antelope Valley!

Can someone provide some more details on that? (date, exactly where, what happened?) I read briefly once about an incident where lead power began braking but R/C helpers kept pushing and piled up the train... is that this?

Mark

mwbridgwater Wrote:
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> Can someone provide some more details on that?
> (date, exactly where, what happened?) I read
> briefly once about an incident where lead power
> began braking but R/C helpers kept pushing and
> piled up the train... is that this?
>
> Mark

The best of my knowledge, they had a de-railment with the Tank Train (Bakersfield to Dolores)
in the 1980's near Lancaster, CA. I guess the radio communication failed and then they
derailed half the train. After that, the Locotrol experiment was cancelled over the Tehachapis.

I can remember that when I was visiting New Mexico I used to see a joint SP/ATSF Coal train
that went through Belen, NM with a Santa Fe SF30C and two SP Tunnel Motors and then in the
middle of the train they had another SF30C and two more SP Tunnel Motors.

Have a good day.

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