Nostalgia & History > few Santa Fe in B&W . . .

. . . from the genuine black and white negative files all taken back in summer '87 and can't be repeated;
top: A morning view of a set of power with run through Conrail units at Santa Fe's Los Angeles Hobart yard Diesel Service facility. This facility was fazed out in the mid nineties and a new facility was built three miles east on the site of an old Lever Bros plant at Commerce, CA and this area of Hobart yard is now part of the expanded intermodal loading facility.
middle: In '87 cabooses were being fazed out at a rapid rate with very few seen bringing up the rear of a train. Here a genuine in service caboose was on the rear of an eastbound "extra Harbor" train of empty copper concentrate hoppers on Santa Fe's Harbor Sub at Ironsides, MP 23 in Torrance, CA.
bottom: Here Santa Fe's Second Watson road switcher has been given extra work and using Pacific Harbor Line trackage rights on exPacific Electric tracks and is shown passing the fishing fleet returning to Watson yard after retrieving empty copper concentrate hoppers from the Kaiser Bulk shipping facility in the port of Los Angeles at San Pedro, CA. The export facility is no longer there and for more than a decade only a streetcar has used these rails and even that is no longer in service.
JB



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/23/17 16:04 by 3rdswitch.

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Nice shots!

Randy Lundgren
Elgin, TX

Nice ones JB. Really like the caboose shot.
Brian Stevens

Black and white has a certain artistic beauty when done as well as these images were.
Bob

Really nice shots! One and all.

Really nice.

B&W shows the weathering detail good on the caboose.