Nostalgia & History > Amtrak Sunset Limited at Bryn Mawr, CA '79

Here's a series of photos of a very late westbound Sunset Limited on 10-3-79. This was at Bryn Mawr on the SP which is near Redlands and east of Colton. This was an unusual catch as it was 115pm in the afternoon and if on time, the train would've passed through here probably before the sun would have been up. 
The train has a Southern car which I think is a through sleeper off of the Crescent.

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One last photo of the SP business car 117 "Tucson" bringing up the rear. 

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That is a sizable train, nice catch.
JB

Quality Amtrak #1 images !  Thanks for sharing them .
This paint scheme looked far better than the red nose scheme on the SDP40F power.

I would speculate that the rear seven Amtrak cars are deadheads.

MEKoch Wrote:
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> I would speculate that the rear seven Amtrak cars
> are deadheads.

I was going to ask about that too.  Train consist and arrangement is really weird, but man, SEVEN deadheads!

Andy

MEKoch Wrote:
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> I would speculate that the rear seven Amtrak cars
> are deadheads.

More than that. That sure looks an awful lot like two Sunset LTD consists together.  Plus an ex-Chessie dome sleeper in the 1st consist, and the SP biz car on the rear.  Quite an unusual occurrence.  I'll bet there was some sort of disruption that caused one consist to be sent back to LA.  Definitely more to this story.

That's got to be two trainsets!  Maybe check an old RTN for some news from that month in 1979.

Los Angeles based passenger train and enginr crews worked to and from YUma, AZ.

Some great photos of a train with most interesting equipment. Thanks for posting these.

Gary R. Clark
Griffith, Indiana

mp51w Wrote:
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> That's got to be two trainsets!  Maybe check an
> old RTN for some news from that month in 1979.
In the October issue of Rail Travel News;
The Sunset Ltd train 1, was annulled at New Orleans on
Sep. 28 due to a work stoppage on the Southern Pacific....
That has to be why there were two trains combined!

Thanks for finding that out about the two trainsets. When I was looking at the slides, I sure thought that it was an especially big train that day.