Nostalgia & History > 9040 East Where are you?

October 1972 and 9040 East is off the normal route of this manifest train.

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Soledad Canyon?

Mike
Henderson, NV

Whoooaaa... that sorta looks like the Santa Paula Branch!

Vote #2 for Santa Paula Branch. Might that be Hwy. 126 to the right?

John

I also vote for the Santa Paula Branch as Espee did detour trains over it in emergencies. - Tony J.

Santa Paula Branch when they were undercutting Tunnel 26. It lasted for about a week.

They were really scared about the heavy power and the lite rail.

We had one coast hoghead cited for running a red signal at Saugus. It was an interlocking and he thought it was an automatic. No pilot, just a head brakeman. I beleive that was the last time it was used for a by-pass. Not long after a peice washed out and it was dead ended.

Nudge

Lebanon Valley Line?

Gonut

The Santa Paula branch between Piru and Saugus it is. The OLA was a reroute because of the tunnel work between Chatsworth and Santa Susana. That morning I caught the CME near Saugus and then headed west until I saw the OLA at the SR126 grade crossing east of Piru and folloed back to Newhall.
Amtrak trains 12 and 13 (Coast Daylight/Starlight)were annualled between LA and Oxnard during the tunnel work.
While checking detail in an old CTC Board, there was a report that a couple of weeks after the tunnel work detours (10-21-72) number 374 struck some cars of number 829 at Chatsworth. The Coast line was closed until about 2PM on the 21st and train number 13 ran via the Santa Paula branch. The train reached Oxnard 2 hours and 10 minutes late after being towed backwards by a SW1500 from Montalvo. This was a Coast Daylight day and the train consisted of 2 SDP45s, Baggage, two chair cars, diner, four chair cars and a travern-observation. Number 12 ran the regular route.