Nostalgia & History > Warbonnet Wednesday: Needles Sub with clouds!

Another fantastic slide from the camera of Mr Len Kratz. Precise location not provided. But ya gotta love those big white fluffy clouds...

1. AT&SF 202 near Klondike, CA* on May 6, 1995.
Original AI slide by Len Kratz.

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels
santafe199

*By guess & by golly I'll use Klondike, CA as the location for Len's shot... 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/24 22:17 by santafe199.

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Beautiful, loved those SD75s!

JG

* location--north track westbound between Siberia and Ash Hill



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/24 05:52 by Super_C.

My vote is eastbound on the north main at Ibis.

Excellent Warbonnet shot!

Larry

Spectacular photo!!

Let's see if we can solve this one. One vote
for a westbound here

https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.64234,-116.00163&z=15&t=S&marker0=34.64235%2C-116.00171

and one for an eastbound here

https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.94760,-114.80670&z=15&t=S&marker0=34.95104%2C-114.80093

Can't rule either one out yet. Maybe Streetview
will give us a good enough look at the
background mountains; if not, need a
pretty close look at the topo map.

Based on the sun angle, I'm leaning toward
Ibis. But why send an eastward pig train
around the sharp curve? (I assume they
had some sort of CTC here by then.)

As it happens, the tangent at Ibis is near
parallel to Highway 95

https://maps.app.goo.gl/YhxzAWZvojywo9co9

which is pointed at not much mountains.
A big vote against Ibis.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/24 11:14 by timz.

The very narrow width of the shadow on the fireman's side of the engine indicates the photo was taken near 1 PM Pacific Daylight Time on this day in May.
So the sun is almost due south and the engine is almost facing due east.
Are there curves on the ATSF route in that area where westbound trains due a 180 so that they wind up facing nearly east for part of their run?


Hakk

I took a quick look at Google maps before I left town. There appears to be a sweeping curve near an old location called Klondike that would seem to match up with Len’s shot. If that is indeed the right curve, then I will use Klondike as the location. With my thanks to ‘Super_C’…

Posted from iPhone

Here are 2 long shots RR west of Siberia, RR east of the location known as Klondike.  The power in Len's shot is on the slight curve just ahead of the power in my second photo.

Andy

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