UP, SP, ATSF, & Amtrak at West Colton & Colton Xing 1986
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2017
- Apr. 12,/Jun. 3, 1986: Two seperate visits to the area. Incl. SD7 switch moves; the Dolores hauler going around the balloon track; Amtrak Desert Winds at the diamonds. Also, a friend of mine (in white T-shirt) on the crew of UP ex-MoPac switch engine.
Used to work for renzenberger out of Colton, mid90s when UP took over running crews around the desert. great memories, great job. great experience.
Some really great footage.
Awesome lashups. I was always an EMD fan, but really enjoy seeing all of these old work horses.
Nice video, miss all 3 railroads and yes, Amtrak's Desert Wind
Another excellent video from a subscriber of yours I remember those years well you must’ve been recording off Riverside Avenue are used to hang out at Pepper Ave., God I miss those days
Love those Dirty engines and Box cars, real men, real work being done, another great train video.
Dirty, real work. That was certainly one way to describe crew jobs on the railroad. Thanks for the comment.
Yeah those boxcars with ZERO graffiti! Great!
Love SP and ATSF
Thank you for the comment.
I love sp and Santa Fe and now BNSF
I ❤ Southern Pacific! Now part of Union Pacific.
How times have changed! The diamonds now a days are completely different for the most part, power and scenery wise. You earned a new subscriber, quality stuff here. Keep the oldies coming!
I want to belatedly thank you for your comments and the info about present-day San Diego.
Also there's not single hint of graffiti on ANY of the freight cars!
I remember seeing southern Pacific gp9s more on Anaheim jobs than in Colton
That was nice to see the Missouri pacific blue.
I was lucky to get that. Thanks for the comment.
Very helpful for my layout, around this time and area!
Great! Thanks for the comment.
Another great video thanks Wilz
Thank You!. I'm glad you enjoy them.
I ❤ Santa Fe! Now part of BNSF.
Thanks again for your comments.
At 10:15, Sounds like a C141 on approach to Norton AFB
Yeah. Colton was definitely in the flightpath of those flying barns.
22:07-22:12 These four flatcars on the rear of the SP train have two axles.
Was it some club event as many there watching trains. A decade after 9-11 I was asked to leave from the area as still jumpy. Funny, as I have never heard of any event involving railroads and terrorist.
I didn't see any SD7s in the Bay Area. It was always SD9s.
Roseville seemed to have several SD7's.
the west colton yard still exists but it has expanded since that time.
I haven't seen it for about 25 yrs.
15:22
Odd. I never seen three rail engineers standing right in front of a nose of a United States freight locomotive.
Or, should I say, a Union Pacific SD40-2?
Amtrak sure had more trains running back then. the desert wind train does not exist anymore.
It used to be great way to go to Vegas. Thanks for the comments.
union pacific trains must have gone a different way to the cajon pass back in those days since the line to west colton was owned by southern pacific at that time.
UP had (and has) trackage rights over ATSF (BNSF) San Bernardino, Cajon, and Needles subdivisions from Riverside Jct. to Daggett.
they didn't use helpers on the back in those days either no mid train DPU's either
Thanks for the comment.
yes, but not in this area, sp, used a lot of mid train and rear helpers, in the tehachapis at the time of this video, regards
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