Two tunnel motors (SP and D&RGW) and a Norfolk Southern GE scream in run-8 at 15mph, leading a manifest north out of San Luis Obispo across the Stenner Creek Trestle north of the Cal Poly campus. Behind the trestle and up on the mountain you can see a cut, and indeed, in just a few minutes (and after passing through the big horseshoe curve) this train will be all the way up there battling Cuesta Pass.

February 1, 1998