Nostalgia & History > Train time at Santa Barbara early 1960's

SP Train 98 the LA bound Coast Daylight gets a crew change and its headlights cleaned during station stop in the early 1960's. Today's train is lead by a couple of PA's with 6036 leading and a couple of E units following.

Robert Morris
Dunsmuir, CA
Robert Morris Photography

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Yet another fantastic photo Bob! Thanks for posting one of my favorite locations.

Dave 

It's hard to see, also hard to believe......but it appears there could be a baggage car up front.  98/99 carried a combine up front, until very late in the game, presumably when the combines were no  longer available.

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Only one track all the way through Santa Barbara now unlike in the past.

Another great Morris photo!

Regards, Jim Evans

FiveChime Wrote:
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> Only one track all the way through Santa Barbara
> now unlike in the past.
>
> Another great Morris photo!
>
> Regards, Jim Evans


Google maps and the UP ETT says there's currently two main tracks from South Santa Barbara MP 368.6 to North Santa Barbara MP 365.0.

That'sa wonderful and interesting photo. Thanks for sharing. 

Nice shot!  Old SP RR LA, CA based passenger train and engine crews worked to and from Santa Barbara, CA at the time that above photo was taken.
 

It must have been an awfully dusty & muddy trip down from San Francisco to require the headlight cover to be cleaned.  Was that standard practice at Santa Barbara during this era or was this an unusual occurrence?


photobob Wrote:
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> SP Train 98 the LA bound Coast Daylight gets a
> crew change and its headlights cleaned during
> station stop in the early 1960's. 

Robert 
what was the mechanic doing on the front of locomotive? Any going away of the E units in consist? Or the train for that matter.

Hou74-76 Wrote:
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> It must have been an awfully dusty & muddy trip
> down from San Francisco to require the headlight
> cover to be cleaned.  Was that standard practice
> at Santa Barbara during this era or was this an
> unusual occurrence?
>
>
> photobob Wrote:
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> > SP Train 98 the LA bound Coast Daylight gets a
> > crew change and its headlights cleaned during
> > station stop in the early 1960's. 


When I started with the SP at Santa Barbara there was a laborer that supplied and cleaned the engines. Oxnard and San Luis Obispo had laborers .

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In 1965 there was double track through Santa Barabara.  The original mainline did go thru town when it was built probably back in the early 1900s.
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> Only one track all the way through Santa Barbara
> now unlike in the past.
>
> Another great Morris photo!
>
> Regards, Jim Evans

According to online TT scans, double track was installed between the dates of these ETT's---Coast Division #106 of 10-1-1916 and #116 of 7-8-1923.