while not complete internally two of the 8500 hp turbines were saved by a scrapyard in Kansas City. One is at the Illinois Railway Museum and the other is at the Utah State railroad museum in Ogden Utah.
Great footage. Just one correction: The map(s) showing both tunnels have the numbers wrong. When ATSF built the North track in 1913, they numbered the tunnels to coincide with their mileposts. Since Barstow was MP 0, the numbers get higher to San Bernardino. Therefore, Tunnel 1 is the EASTERNMOST tunnel and Tunnel 2 is the WESTERNMOST tunnel.
An argument can be made that DD does indeed stand for double diesel (as well as the truck type) due to the fact that both the GE U50s and Alco C855s were referred to as such despite having B+B-B+B wheel arrangements taken from old turbines.
Awesome video. Really love the historical rail fanning. Now preserved on youtube for eternity.
In my late teens and 20s we were at Cajon all the time.2 Union Pacific DD 40 and 1SD40-2 if you were in Pomona they would come through at 80 mph
while not complete internally two of the 8500 hp turbines were saved by a scrapyard in Kansas City. One is at the Illinois Railway Museum and the other is at the Utah State railroad museum in Ogden Utah.
Wonderful!
Great footage. Just one correction: The map(s) showing both tunnels have the numbers wrong. When ATSF built the North track in 1913, they numbered the tunnels to coincide with their mileposts. Since Barstow was MP 0, the numbers get higher to San Bernardino. Therefore, Tunnel 1 is the EASTERNMOST tunnel and Tunnel 2 is the WESTERNMOST tunnel.
Great job 😊
The DD does not stand for double diesel, the D is the 4-axle truck configuration thus front truck is D and the rear truck is D
An argument can be made that DD does indeed stand for double diesel (as well as the truck type) due to the fact that both the GE U50s and Alco C855s were referred to as such despite having B+B-B+B wheel arrangements taken from old turbines.
UP reached Chicago with the Missouri Pacific merger, albeit in a roundabout way by MP subsidiary Chicago & Eastern Illinois via St. Louis.