Nostalgia & History > SP Thanksgiving weekend '75 . . .

.   .   .   on Thanksgiving weekend 1975, SP's East Pleasanton Turn was returning west near East Pleasanton, CA (I think?, correction welcome as I did not write things down back then). Happy Thanksgiving!
JB

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Impressive image !
Gary

Looks more like westbound leaving Sunol and entering Niles Canyon.

Regardless of location, excellent photo.
 



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Those SD9's sure look great.  Excellent background.
Happy Thanksgiving.
ALLEN

About right

krm152 Wrote:
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> Those SD9's sure look great.  Excellent
> background.
> Happy Thanksgiving.
> ALLEN

That's Huff and Puff. They were assigned to Commute service and still had operating steam generators.

Railbaron Wrote:
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> Looks more like westbound leaving Sunol and
> entering Niles Canyon.
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> Regardless of location, excellent photo.
>  

I agree.  Know that area well.  Grew up there.

Would Huff and Puff be numbers 4451 and 4452?

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

4450 & 4451. "huff" and "Puff" respectively.

Desmond Praetzel, "4451 Puff"

Thank You Desmond,
Hope yopu had a Happy Thanksgiving.

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

Great image. SP SD9's looked so much better with plows...

Great photo of the red and scarlet SP in action.  What a pleasant setting.  The two units would soon be using dynamics to descent the mild grade between Sunol and Niles Junction.  The track remains in service as part of the Niles Canyon Railway.  

Gerry

What a fantastic photo---if you have any others of SP action in the Sunol-Pleasanton-Livermore-Altamont area, please post!  I only saw this line briefly as a kid, and only saw a train on it once (SD-45's pulling a manifest--and they were moving pretty fast!), so I love any old photos I can see of this original transcontinental line in action.

If you looka t the rail, SP was using long lengths of bolted rail on this line at the time.  Stick rail that kinda seemed like welded rail...



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