Nostalgia & History > Warbonnet Weekend duo..

1. AT&SF GP60M 103 leads 3 sisters with the 991 train past the Fresno Amtrak (former Santa Fe) station on 7/13/1990.
2. AT&SF B40-8W 556 leads the 991 train past the original Santa Fe station at Corcoran, CA on 8/31/1991. Depot was torn down in 1998.

Thanks for looking,

Tom

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Well done. Great looking lashups.
Bob

refarkas Wrote:
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> Well done. Great looking lashups.
> Bob

"lashups"???????    Do they hold, i.e. "lash", the units together with ropes?

HotWater Wrote: > ... "lashups"???????   ...

Well jack, here you go AGAIN beating a bleeping dead horse. You know damn well the term "lash-up" has been used all over the place, probably for decades. And you know damn well the RR world is FULL of all sorts of nick names & slangy terminology. Some of it local, some of it national. But YOU don't like it, so YOU just can't stand it. I first heard "lash-up" in 1978, my first year in train service. I heard it over 3 RRs all throughout my career, right up to 2010 when I retired. I STILL hear it amongst fellow rails, retired or not. Are you EVER going to adjust to the fact that the RR world and all of its terminology DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU??? (doubtful...)

Lance/199

santafe199 Wrote:
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> HotWater Wrote: > ... "lashups"???????   ...
>
> Well jack, here you go AGAIN beating a
> bleeping dead horse. You know damn well the term
> "lash-up" has been used all over the
> place, probably for decades. And you know damn
> well the RR world is FULL of all sorts of nick
> names & slangy terminology. Some of it local, some
> of it national. But YOU don't like it, so YOU
> just can't stand it. I first heard "lash-up" in
> 1978, my first year in train service. I heard it
> over 3 RRs all throughout my career, right up to
> 2010 when I retired. I STILL hear it amongst
> fellow rails, retired or not. Are you EVER going
> to adjust to the fact that the RR world and all
> of its terminology DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU???
> (doubtful...)
>
> Lance/199

Well, believe what you want but, the term "lashup" is a toy train term, generally developed by Lionel. In all my years on the railroad, first as a fan (from the early 1950s), and second in the motive power industry (from 1962) I NEVER heard Professional Railroaders refer to a locomotive consist as a "lashup". It was always a "consist", "MU consist", or "unit make-up". You can continue your keyboard diarrhea all you like.

(yawn)...

santafe199 Wrote:
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> (yawn)...

That's the best you have?

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4960012,4960569#msg-4960569

Nice shots, and those 60Ms make for a great lashup...

JG

Railfan4Christ Wrote:

> 2. AT&SF B40-8W 556 leads the 991 train past the
> original Santa Fe station at Corcoran, CA on
> 8/31/1991. Depot was torn down in 1998.

The Corcoran depot was torn down in August 1995.  I moved to California in May 1995 and planned to shoot the depot on my way up the valley to the Bay Area, but I lost a day in Barstow due to car trouble and had to drive straight up I-5 instead.  By the time I got back to Corcoran later in the year, the depot was gone.  Glad you got it - that's a great angle.

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> Railfan4Christ Wrote:
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> > 2. AT&SF B40-8W 556 leads the 991 train past
> the
> > original Santa Fe station at Corcoran, CA on
> > 8/31/1991. Depot was torn down in 1998.
>
> The Corcoran depot was torn down in August 1995. 
> I moved to California in May 1995 and planned to
> shoot the depot on my way up the valley to the Bay
> Area, but I lost a day in Barstow due to car
> trouble and had to drive straight up I-5
> instead.  By the time I got back to Corcoran
> later in the year, the depot was gone.  Glad you
> got it - that's a great angle.

Thanks for the correction Evan. I left CA for AZ in 1993, haven't ever ventured back to Corcoran since. I heard it was 1998, but I am glad to have shot it before it went away.

Tom

Great photos, sure do miss the Superfleet.  

Nathan

Nice catch of the quartet of 60M's coming off Diana Street.
JB