1984-85 Seacliff, Southern Pacific - The Chase
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Southern Pacific on the coast this day, was the place to be with a video camera. Starting here at Seacliff, chasing down the old Pacific Coast Highway for a few miles was a common past time I took advantage of when ever possible. I believe the engineer had an itchy trigger finger for the P3 that day.....luckily.
My brother took us up in the Cessna Skymaster one day in the same area. You can see why SP on the Coastline was, and still is a favorite.
Ohhhhhhmygaawwwwd at 6:56 a Crown bus too. What a great catch this entire video is. Thank you for sharing the "best of" in this video; best railroad ever, best bus ever.
I just drove this road through Seacliff today this afternoon. And I thought just how wonderful it was to see the Espee when it ran here. I miss the Espee so much, best railroad of my "railroad era", 1978-1996.
Crazy timing discovering this “tube” today. I’m into model railroading and purchasing that very same loco(SD45T-2 #9189) tomorrow!!!! Manufacturer hasn’t made one of these guys in couple years and it’s the only SD45T-2 I’ve located! Still brand new!!
It’s the 2nd unit in this consist that I’m referring to.
So glad I just found this video. It definitely took me back to my childhood when my dad would take us out train chasing around Sacramento in the late 80s and 90s. Sure miss those faded, grimy, and overworked SP locomotives.
I lived next to SP in Chatsworth and Simi Valley from 1969 to 1985. The last era of real railroading.
Great coverage! I worked the Coast freight and passenger pool for years. Never was tired of the scenry!
That's some great footage! I really wish that I had had a chance to experience the SP first hand, but I was born too late.
The Godfather (Vince Cipolla) was at the throttle. One of the NICEST San Joaquin guys I ever knew. I miss running the Coast, it was a treat, nd it took skill.
Vince Cipolla, “The Godfather” recently passed. He was one of a kind, and one heck of a nice guy.
I was wondering if he was the "Vince" on the radio. Very friendly gentleman the few times I was fortunate to speak to him.
1980's... a very good time for rail-fans!
GRrreat job keeping that camera steady during the chase! Wow !
NIIIIIIICE !!!! The beginning kind of reminds me of that scene in RUNAWAY train with Eric Roberts when he hears the horn and he s Yelling " YEAH BLOOOW BABY BLOOOOOW!!!"
Great Movie!
SD45T's in action! I love the pace shot, that signature 20 cylinder EMD sound, and that fabulous Nathan P series horn. ~Daniel
I love The EMD rev up, I like when the engineer Kicked The throttle up a notch also. 😍
Just discovered this now and it's super. The pacing was remarkable, no jerking or shaking. Great stuff really! Thanks for sharing.
Brings back memories of Oxnard. Dave Johnson is the clerk on the radio. I recognize the crew members on the train but can't think of Leonards last name. The autos came out of Warm Springs and the long flats came out of the Army base at Camp Roberts. The perishable came out of Guadalupe and Surf.
Man the good old days!!
Kenny to Vince Cipolla...We are going to do everything...!! Everything that the Mighty than GOD! W.A.G. tells us to do! Hell ..With the Chief and the Ass't Chief Dispatcher !! Trainmaster Bill Giles tell us to do something and make a pickup...WE make a pickup.I remembered this day. Dave Johnson is at the end of this video talking on the radio to Vinnny Cipolla "THE GODFATHER of the Santa Barbara SUB. Good ole 80's. Railroading was alive and well back then and for real....Long live the memory SP and Oxnard yard and the really cool people that work there.
Love those old SD45-T2s with their 20-645 engines. Thanks for sharing.
They were a kick to run too. Leaving LA yard, around Glendale, if you throttled down to run 6 it would send out a shockwave that set off car alarms! It was the only engine you could feel in your chest! I loved them and sure miss ‘em. Glad the 6819 is preserved at the Sacramento Railroad Museum.
It’s rare to see this SP stuff from the early 80s. Most of the time you see the late 80s-early 90s when video became more popular but the early 80s was by far the better time period in my opinion.
Yes! Same here! All the merger railroads and no cabooses! Sad!!
Same problem here, but the SP will live on in the memories of those who saw it.
That lead unit, from the famed Outh Cifi railroad!
This takes me back to some happier times! We (my family) would always camp at El Capitan State Beach in Santa Barbara County, which was track side on this SP Route. Yeah, it was noisy at night, but the day light offered some spectacular back drops to SP's trains! I really wish I had a good camera then, man would have I gotten some good shots! We moved out of CA in 1995 and SP didn't last much longer, sad day when I found out UP bought them out. Some good memories though! I suggest making El Capitan State Beach a vacation/photo destination, the campgrounds are well taken care of and just some awesome seascapes as well!
Thanks again.
I have actually seen a cotton bell (SSW) unit in Phoenix a few years ago, kinda takes me back now.
NIIIIICE ....SD - 45 - T- 2 , SD - 45 - T- 2 , SD - 40 - R , SD - 45 - T - 2.
While that's common knowledge, I thank you for the post. It doesn't change the fact that the 20 cylinder engines had a better sound which I why I have a special fondness for them. I will miss that sound. Standing on a tunnel facing looking down on the tracks while a group of SD45s passes underneath shaking your innards is like nothing else. The 40s pale in comparison.
That was probably my co worker at the controls
Ringo Clark-who CARED if they were dirty......they got the job DONE. That is where the pride matters-not how pretty they looked,
I grew up in Lancaster,Calif. along the SP's San Joaquin Division in the 50's and 60's. The best sounding air horn in my opinion. SP did wash their engines, all the time. I observed K-M 9014 being washed in the wash track in Bakersfield. It was in later years things started going down hill. Observed engines in LA going through the washer. They use the excuse for these mega-mergers that the trucks are the competition, but it looks like they gave it all to them anyway so they can run only double stacks.
Hey Gordon..what are you up to these days ? I finally retired after 53 years of service.
@@jamesg2609 I'm horrible with names, dude, you better fill me in so I can get my brain tuned in, lol.
OK, I think my brain is starting to work now. Your Dad was VP SoPac back in the '60's. The last time we talked was on the radio when you were on the Saugus local and I was on the Metrolink train, right??
@gordonvincent731 .. yep you got it right. First time I met you was at Lancaster you were with Andy Smihula. Plus we made a trip to Vegas on 35/36 with killer Grab. Good memory.. too bad this forum isn't private we could exchange info
@@jamesg2609 I had to think about it, then. it hit me. I wonder what ever happened to Steve. The last I heard he had heart problems. I'm in Virginia since '94. I don't miss it. I've been doing genealogy on my family, one bombshell after another!.
I guess you realised your dream of getting behind the control stand Jim. I bet you don't get to hear the sound of jointed rail so much nowadays.
I heard SP never cleaned their locomotives.... this proves it lol. Love the sound of those 16.645 EMDs, the newer 710s have lost a lot of that raw power sound, thank you EPA...not
Thats AWESOME!!!
Great footage, grew up surfing those beaches. Do you happen to know the train symbol for that manifest? Too bad the coastline is 98% Amtrak now.
That looks like the WSWCM
Great Chase! The sound of the rail is awesome! Click Clack ! Not to mention the sound of the 2-Stroke EMD's :) Thanks!
Southern Pacific R.I.P.
Well Jim, I would love to drive a 337 suck and blow, or mixmaster (haha) thanks for the vids,,, and yes cwr has killed the sound we rail fans love, but at least I dont have to walk miles testing cadweld joints!
Nice!!👍
Really great video! Look Ma! No graffiti!!!
You had a great video above the west portal of tunnel 26. Would you re-post? As a second generation SP Coast engineer, I’d really like to see it again!
Great videos.
@Tony Hlavinka
I liked the SD40T-2’s, they were just awesome in their day. The C44/C45AC’s were also fun. I just liked the sound of the SD’s in series.
It's the last scene in this link - ua-cam.com/video/AXLYrHkvgWs/v-deo.html
What horn did mostt of Espees Locomotives have??? Most of them sounded like this one
Nathan P3.
Music to my ears!
Those are some BEAUTIFUL SD40T4's:)
My favorite video. Why can I watch this video on my PC (I previously "liked" it) but my Android TV cannot find it with the UA-cam app? However, even on my PC, if I copy and paste the URL in the UA-cam search field, it does not come up there either, nor does it come up when I copy and paste the video title. Was this video somehow removed from search engines?
Try it now...I hope it works for you!
A new URL. It works! Thanks so much.
I count 105 cars and a caboose.
Correct! and you didn't see ANY graffiti ?
Did you have a chase video of SP SD9's on the Coast Line near Ventura, along PCH?
This line doesn't see much in the way of freight action nowadays does it ?
Is this somewhere between Dana Point and Oceanside ?
+Belleville197 It is between Ventura and Santa Barbara going towards Ventura.
The SP NEVER washed their Power, EVER ! I grew up with them in the 60's and 70's and their Motors were FILTHY. No Pride ! Had NOTHING to do with Finances !!!
The SP was proud of its dirty and tunnel blackened power!
Why show only the first two units for the whole video?
Really?
Cool, wish the horn wasn't blowing constantly though
😍😍😍😍😍
Sure does n t sound like a Nathan P3 horn to me
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