Nostalgia & History > SP Train 1-375 rolls over the Santa Fe at Calwa Ca.1960

On a hot Summer morning in 1960 I found Train 1-375 lead by 5783. This location is a few miles south of Fresno. After a midnight Greyhound ride from San Francisco a walk down to Calwa in the pre dawn light was in order. Of course the walk back was in the heat of the day but what the heck when your sixteen anything for a train photo took priority. The Santa Fe had a yard to the left of this view.

Robert Morris
Dunsmuir, CA
Robert Morris Photography



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/20 15:47 by photobob.

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Very cool Bob. I work on the other set of rails but cross the UP there often. It's one of those spots with a perpetual Form A in effect these days.

Not sure I'd walk from downtown to Calwa in the pre-dawn light in the 21st Century! (Or the late part of the 20th Century, either).

TJY

The operator has already hung orders for an eastward train?

Note the Western Union sign.

> The operator has already hung orders for an eastward train?

As photobob wrote when he posted this photo on 5/9/18, orders have been hung out for a Bakersfield-bound Santa Fe freight.