Nostalgia & History > For the Barbarians #66

This is out somewhere around Capitan (West of Santa Barbara).  I climbed up on a searchlight and, if I recall, kinda chickened out on the approach shot and hid behind the signal head as best I could- (I was thinner then).   
So we're left with a couple going away pics. 
What a wuss!
SR

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Interesting consist, an SD45 and a GP9, you don't see that everyday.

You're not a wuss.  I climbed up on a Santa Fe signal bridge once and climbed back down.  While I was on the property with permission, I didn't want to push my luck.  .  

West Peddler

My friends and I "worked" as amateur signal maintainers when we were kids. We only had to run from the bulls a handful of times, but I knew who my enemies were at school and had a name at the ready if I was caught!

BoilingMan Wrote:
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> I climbed up on a searchlight
> and, if I recall, kinda chickened out on the
> approach shot and hid behind the signal head as
> best I could- (I was thinner then).   
> 
> SR

When I was working on my AFT series a couple years ago I was using my photos and Google Earth to identify locations. I had one overhead shot in Florida (Lakeland, I think) that I assumed I’d taken from an overpass.
After a long confusing search I figured it out- I’d climbed a cantilever signal
SR