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Date: 02/06/16 07:22
Cajon Pass Work Train
Author: HardYellow

This is a SP (Herzog) Work Train, electro-magnet picking up scrap metal on the Palmdale Cutoff a few miles below Hiland (Summit). The Santa Fe track below is now DT and the tunnel had be day-lighted. Mt. Baldy in the middle back ground. Photo was 1989.

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Date: 02/06/16 12:33
Re: Cajon Pass Work Train
Author: the_expediter

Cool shot...THX..even had a DRGW unit trailing...Steve

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Date: 02/06/16 12:35
Re: Cajon Pass Work Train
Author: Out_Of_Service

great view with that shot ... and a well powered work train ...

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Date: 02/06/16 17:46
Re: Cajon Pass Work Train
Author: wigwag

I caught a C&IM SD38-2 on the point of a work train at Hiland just a few years later. :)

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Date: 02/06/16 22:21
Re: Cajon Pass Work Train
Author: railstiesballast

An SP work train with a rented Herzog "car topper" backhoe/crane.

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