Nostalgia & History > Seven SD9s, Anyone?

Here's one from the early 1980s. I recall my parents were taking some out-of-town guests to Napa Valley for some wine tasting. "Just drop me off at Napa Junction and pick me up on your way back home," I said. I believe this photo is from that day: seven SD9s hauling tonnage off the NWP into Jameson Canyon, for the trip over the hill to Suisun.

Loleta Fernbridge

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Nice pic.  Just imagining waht that SOUNDED like is even more appealing.

D F W

Thanks for sharing. So, as a girl your parents just let you out in the middle of nowhere?

Anybody notice that "Canadian" is spelled wrong on the CN boxcar.

Keith 

That is how the French spell Canadian.
KD6PYD Wrote:
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> Anybody notice that "Canadian" is spelled wrong on
> the CN boxcar.
>
> Keith 

one side would be spelled Canadien the other side would be spelled Canadian

KD6PYD Wrote:
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> Anybody notice that "Canadian" is spelled wrong on
> the CN boxcar.
>
> Keith 

Not spelled wrong. That's the French spelling. Car is labeled in French on one side and in English on the other. Canada has two official languages.

Much of what was shipped in those boxcars into the US was newsprint to publishing companies.  Thanks to the internet, precious little is shipped that way now.

-John. (who still likes his daily paper, the Orange County Register)

Great shot! I can imagine what it sounded like and that must have been back in the days when California got rain.

James Nelson
Thornton, CO
www.flickr.com/mojaveflyer

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing. So, as a girl your parents
> just let you out in the middle of nowhere?

Most of the time nothing really bad happened.
- L.F.

mojaveflyer Wrote:
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> Great shot! I can imagine what it sounded like and
> that must have been back in the days when
> California got rain.

1984 was one of the last years I lived in California.  From what I'm reading, they are getting grain now btw.  But it's going to take a good deal more to begin to make a dent in the drought.  Plus, they've pumped the aquifers down an awful lot - I have no idea if those are even going to stand a ghost of a chance to get recharged.

Cheers, Jim Fitch

Wow, I have not seen a lot of photots of the NWP in service nor the short lines and innterurbans  connecting to it. I had no know idea they ran so many units in the their MU sets.
What a great shot!

No more newsprint...  Concrete ties for "SMART"; Grain, and empty cars for case goods -- wine...

Lark Wrote:
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> No more newsprint...  Concrete ties for "SMART";
> Grain, and empty cars for case goods -- wine...

yup. And the gondola probably has rebar so something and is bound for the team track where a customer has a bit of a storage yard going.