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Date: 02/25/20 20:15
SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: photobob

I took this on a trip to Southern California on a road trip with some of my fellow photo students from SF City College back in 1962. I know we chased it up Solidad Canyon but I have no idea of this location. Train 803 was lead by four Alco DL-702/RSD 12's and an SD9.

Robert Morris
Dunsmuir, CA
Robert Morris Photography

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Date: 02/25/20 20:23
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: Mudrock

It looks like the old grade crossing on the old Soledad Canyon Toad from where the trucker tried to put Dennis Weaver into the train in the movie Duel.


Chris

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Date: 02/25/20 20:25
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: bearease

Acton maybe? Would that be the present day Crown Valley Rd. crossing in the distance?

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Date: 02/25/20 20:56
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: 3rdswitch

Wow, what a time capsule!
JB

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Date: 02/25/20 22:18
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: MojaveBill

That toad was a real frog...

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

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Date: 02/25/20 22:36
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: PHall

Back when SP was hoping the RSD-12's were going to be a winner.

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Date: 02/26/20 04:11
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: refarkas

A dynamic image - I can almost feel the ground shaking.
Bob

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Date: 02/26/20 07:50
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: SP8595

Awesome!

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Date: 02/26/20 08:25
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: ExStarlightHog

Whoever put up the numbers was pretty sloppy.  Looks like both the 8 and the 3 are upside down.  I always took the time to put up the numbers correctly.  You never knew when someone might be taking a photo for posterity. 

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Date: 02/26/20 10:29
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: Westbound

You must have been quite the salesman to convince your fellow students to chase a freight train when there were so many other things to photograph in this world!

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Date: 02/26/20 10:53
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: timz

bearease Wrote:
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> Acton maybe? Would that be the present day Crown
> Valley Rd. crossing in the distance?

Looks likely, tho the bridge has been replaced

https://goo.gl/maps/kZh42DdUAnMD7SWk8

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Date: 02/26/20 11:15
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: erielackawanna

Epitome of cool.

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Date: 02/27/20 12:58
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: johnsweetser

Sun is wrong for a westbound train in Soledad Canyon (westbound by SP timetable, that is.  Such a train would be going easterly through Soledad Canyon by geographical direction).



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 02/27/20 13:09 by johnsweetser.

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Date: 02/27/20 13:14
Re: SP Train 803 in 1962
Author: timz

Ye, it's running hours late on 803's schedule,
and running close to compass-north. No reason
to doubt his Acton location.

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