ATSF and SP on Tehachapi on November 1, 1991

In this video you'll see the ATSF and SP trains which ran in the daylight hours between Tehachapi and Caliente on November 1, 1991. There's plenty of action including watching a coal train cross over itself at Tunnel 9. And keep an eye out for a group of Mexican immigrants hitching a ride on a SP freight!

[@DanEvans-ho9ui]

Great video. A lot of good history there. Miss those days of the grungy SP locomotives and the shiny SF warbonnets. I still model this era in N scale.

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

Thanks so much! I was just out there and though it’s still fun it’s just not the same.

[@linkfan95]

Sd40’s, F45’s, B-axels, and B-units. All pieces of an era long gone.

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

You're certainly right about that!

[@dmkrusch]

30 years have passed in flash...

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

Like a blink of the eye!

[@andrewgorrie3759]

Excellent footage, thanks for sharing it !

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

Thank you, it’s my pleasure!!

[@ScottJohnson4449]

Love the view at 32:32. Just looks badass! This is the exact era I model, even have 3 Kodachromes. I am going to go run some Superfleet SF trains today, might even film 'em if they run well lol. Not your normal stomping grounds, but awesome video. Thanks for posting. Scott

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

Thanks so much Scott! This was my favorite era on Tehachapi. I still like going there but it just doesn’t do for me what it used to. Probably it was those big EMDs growling up the grades.

[@ScottJohnson4449]

@@dhdisprsmith2296 I agree. I try to get to Cajon Pass once or twice a year. Yes a fleet of identical GEs is not as dramatic as 6 or 8 tunnel motors howling in run 8.

[@SouthernFlyer1011]

40:35 Southern Pacific sd45r 7443 the only surviving piece of the 1989 cajon pass runaway

[@drewguild3879]

I'll have to view in pieces. Such great memories and the howling EMDs. TY.

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

My pleasure, enjoy!

[@willwozniak2826]

OUTSTANDING..❤❤

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

Thank you very much!

[@sophiamadams]

I have the GATX unit at 40:28 in HO lol

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

That’s cool!

[@thairatcatcher]

Wot, no graffiti😮

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

Not much in 1991

[@colinmulder6806]

Here's a list of possible guesses to the SF freights you caught:
1. #1-961
2. #1-971
3. #1-948
4. #1-991
5. #1-589

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

Thank you very much Colin!

[@colinmulder6806]

​@@dhdisprsmith2296 Your welcome. You'll have to put another LOVE notification on my top comment. I had to change the words SD to actually SF.
The first westbound you caught looks like #1-339.

[@MJMYouTuber]

59:57 these hobos are on that train?

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

Most of them are Mexican immigrants. I think send to see them a lot in those years, sometimes just a single guy and other times a few or a family. It’s been years now since I’ve seen any.

[@patriksiegfried5050]

The good old days, but since AT&SF ans BN got together we no longer see these beautiful locomotives.
I'm not going to congratulate BNSF for breaking the Warbonnet myth of Santa Fe, because the BNSF of now are really not beautiful with this orange... yuck.
Thank you for the beautiful pictures, greetings from Switzerland

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

They were great days for sure! Todays scene can’t begin to equal this. I’m just glad the ATSF/SP merger didn’t go through. I never liked that Kodachrome scheme. I’m so glad you enjoyed this all the way from Switzerland!

[@patriksiegfried5050]

@@dhdisprsmith2296 I don't mind the Kodachrome version, they kept the Warbonnet so the BNSF didn't keep anything from the Warbonnet versions.

[@thomaslusk7621]

Railways are yuck now along with everything else.

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

I certainly agree with you Tom! It takes something real special to get me out with my camera. These days I just go out and watch trains.

[@likestallwomen]

Loved the video

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

I’m so glad you enjoyed it Danny!

[@likestallwomen]

Loved the video