Nostalgia & History > Three for "Waycar Wednesday."

Here's three I shot  for "Waycar Wednesday."  Two of them could also be used in a "Wagon Wednesday" thread.

1.  A three unit helper has cut off the train at Summit, on Cajon Pass and is shoving the caboose up the spur track behind the depot to drop it back to the train.  Undated.

2.  Two old battlewagons in Cajon helper service pull past the Summit depot.  Here, they will cut off.  Undated.

3.  Swinging over to Tehachapi, we see a GP7 and a GP9  helping to keep things moving on this eastbound.  They are exiting Tunnel 5 between Cliff and Bealville.  This was before the west switch at Cliff was torn up in a derailment about 1971 and the switch was moved west to about  where these units are.  I was the conductor on the derailment train.

Thanks for looking, and as always, comments welcome

Brian Black
Castle Rock, CO,

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Great look back, Brian!

texchief1

Something "interesting" happened to picture #2. Did the scanner get indigestion?

PHall Wrote:
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> Something "interesting" happened to picture #2.
> Did the scanner get indigestion?

If your referring to that scratch on the photo on the waycar, yup, that's what happened.

Brian

Just saw these, excellent trio.
JB

tehachcond Wrote:

> 3.  Swinging over to Tehachapi, we see a GP7 and a GP9  helping to keep things moving on this eastbound.  They are exiting Tunnel 5 between Cliff and Bealville.  This was before the west switch at Cliff was torn up in a derailment about 1971 and the switch was moved west to about  where these units are.  

The moving of the location of the west switch of  Cliff had nothing to do with a derailment about 1971 as some readers may conclude here since the extension of the Cliff siding happened around 1975.