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Nostalgia & History > Meet Monday-Santa Fe and SPDate: 11/03/25 17:32 Meet Monday-Santa Fe and SP Author: GreenFlag On 5-2-95, an eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train is in the siding at Woodford meeting a westbound SP empty coal train.
 Date: 11/03/25 19:56 Re: Meet Monday-Santa Fe and SP Author: wpdude LOL, asking for a friend, but where would an empty coal train be going in southern california?
Date: 11/03/25 20:01 Re: Meet Monday-Santa Fe and SP Author: groundrelay Back to the coal mines in Utah! Coal comes into California for the cement plants at Monolith, Victorville, Cushenbury and for export overseas.
Date: 11/03/25 21:12 Re: Meet Monday-Santa Fe and SP Author: 3rdswitch The good old days on the pass.
JB Date: 11/03/25 23:26 Re: Meet Monday-Santa Fe and SP Author: coach I miss those days, when it was safer, with no thieves running around opening container doors. Tehachapi was literally heaven to me.
Date: 11/04/25 07:49 Re: Meet Monday-Santa Fe and SP Author: GreenFlag I believe this was during a time when SP got the export coal business out of the Port of Long Beach from the UP. They had a much longer route getting the coal there by running over Donner Pass, Tehachapi and Cajon Pass vs the direct UP route from Utah.
Date: 11/04/25 08:59 Re: Meet Monday-Santa Fe and SP Author: Railfan4Christ Could have been an empty coal train from Trona or Monolith. But why is the TOFC train in the hole for an empty coal train?
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