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With that typical EMD resonant hum, three helpers shove on the rear of a manifest in San Luis Obispo, heading for Cuesta Pass.
November 19, 1997 |
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A shot of a beautiful sunset, just south of the San Luis Obispo depot.
November 24, 1997 |
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This is some interesting freight railroading action in San Luis Obispo. Read more about it by clicking on the thumbnail.
December 11, 1997 |
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While doing a switching job in the Santa Clara/San Jose yard, ex-SSW GP40-2 7648 and the freight cars it was moving around appear to have split a switch.
December 29, 1997 |
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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.
February 1, 1998 |
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Mid-train helpers, my favorite! And what's even better is that these units are tunnel motors (two SP, one D&RGW).
February 1, 1998 |
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The UP crew in San Luis Obispo parks a work train that had been repairing damage on the line. El Niņo's wrath was real this winter!
March 2, 1998 |
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A completely empty I-OACI rolls out of Cuesta pass with the dynamic brakes of UP 6070 and 3760 whining all the way.
March 19, 1998 |
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The train makes its way across Stenner Creek Trestle, just a minute away from the Cal Poly campus.
March 19, 1998 |
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4 ex-SP SD40M-2's (all ex-SD45's) are on helper-duty in San Luis Obispo, due to traffic being diverted onto the Coast Line while ties and rails are replaced in Tehachapi.
March 20, 1998 |
