I built a good sized HO scale layout of this area about this time frame. My friend said WHY DO YOU HAVE SO MANY FLAT CARS? Then we went railfanning up there and he said YOU NEED MORE FLAT CARS ! AHAhahahaaaa ...
@ScottKew-g8rАй бұрын
SP power with the full light packages !! And CABOOSES to boot !! NICE !!!!! Cantara loop without the guard rails on the bridge also. WOW !The 9000 series SD - 45 s sill in their older number series.
@ScottKew-g8r9 ай бұрын
NIIIICE!!!!
@scottkew6278 Жыл бұрын
Mott Azalea overlap. Great Shot ! I really enjoy how you captured the vertical curve here. The grade changes quite a bit right here. Today there are no switches here as the U.P. just turned this into a length of double track.
@1XRanger Жыл бұрын
Paul Irvine -Vocals and Lead Guitar, Gary Rumble - Vocals and Guitar, Scott Shure - Bass, Rick Sloane - Drums
@David-nl1zt Жыл бұрын
I wish I could go back in time again, to when I was a teenager and was train watching all over the west coast, when this was originally taken. Friendly people, trains with no graffiti on them, and you didn't have to worry about getting shot just going to the store like today.
@FabioSilva-mt9wr Жыл бұрын
Sp 4449 goes to Southern Califórnia
@FabioSilva-mt9wr Жыл бұрын
Sp 4449 está soando o sp&s 3 chime whistle igual a voz da prima aline
@FabioSilva-mt9wr Жыл бұрын
Sp 4449 going to new Orleans world's fair 1984
@FabioSilva-mt9wr Жыл бұрын
Sp 4449 in 1984
@nathancorcoran5347 Жыл бұрын
My Uncle and Aunt had went visited and rode the Sugar Cane Train, back in 2012. That was two years before it closed down.
@robertmiller5217 Жыл бұрын
Okay. Ya got me. I'm old and feeble now. I suspected that since I last saw an SP tunnel motor. One that I have probably had on the point or in the consist for thousands and thousands and thousands of miles and God only knows how many hours. It was in pretty good shape, too. Cutting edge technology for that time frame. They were the second best of the old tubs I got to run. Number one is the SD-9. The problem is I saw this tunnel motor unit in the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. And I’m a surviving SP mutt, late of SP’s Sacramento and Oregon Divisions. I’m a third generation railroader on both sides of my family, with 325 years collective seniority with the Mo Pac, MKT, Santa Fe, Sacramento Northern and the SP with the bulk of it, around 200 years on the SP’s Los Angeles, Coast, Western, Sacramento and Oregon Divisions, most all of it in the operating department. Bottom line; for as long as I live the SP lives. Open a vein and I would probably bleed Daylight Livery. Although the last engines I ran were yellow and the name at the top of the paycheck was different, but I was NEVER UP I had never heard this song until now. Didn’t even know it existed. So it means more to me than the every day Joe. But it rings true. When speaking of the SP it’s a bad idea to apply the term “Fallen Flag” in my presence. Those words smack of surrender or capitulation, both totally foreign concepts to any rails of true CP or SP ilk. We were sold out, pure and simple. Bad idea, but do so if you must. Then you had better duck... Thanks for the video
@dr.leonardhofstadtersavage6413 Жыл бұрын
Amazing, this was two years after I was born. I love being a millennial 🤪 I grew up in the 90s, seen a lot of Southern Pacific. The AC 4400CW and the SD 40-2, In1992. This brings back a lot of memories, I miss them days.
@camsmith76512 жыл бұрын
Those 4 units at 7:30 with belching exhaust love it. Could use a wash
@bradleyjanes29492 жыл бұрын
I miss espee
@fiberrabit82292 жыл бұрын
Who wrote it?
@stripervince12 жыл бұрын
Loved SP. I was a signalman in the 1980s in LA district. Great time to work there before its demise
@jasonalperin94142 жыл бұрын
Miss the old SP,Did u ever catch the good Ole Amtrak Starlight,in Northern California or Oregon???
@timothy21192 жыл бұрын
I knew that it was a southern pacific the turdo motors one of a kind
@trainknut2 жыл бұрын
Southern Pacific's 2nd gen power, especially the tunnel motors and EMD's, really were quite beautiful, especially in their prime. Thanks for uploading.
@darrelljones59602 жыл бұрын
SP. Long live Southern Pacific. I realized this is 1984 and its 2022.. this is 38 years old. how times have changed. from cabooses to EOTs. from SD40-2s to ES44's.
@darrelljones59602 жыл бұрын
SP. Long live Southern Pacific. I realized this is 1984 and its 2022.. this is 38 years old. how times have changed. from cabooses to EOTs. from SD40-2s to ES44's.
@davegeisler78023 жыл бұрын
Love it ! .. the dirty , grimy Scarlett and Gray working hard as always. RIP Southern Pacific 😢
@gunnarthefeisty3 жыл бұрын
What VHS is this off of?
@notarotomwithhair56372 жыл бұрын
Don’t know
@tommythomason61873 жыл бұрын
One of those big Southern Pacific lumber drags (train #1). No wonder there were 3600 hp SD45-Ts on the point! And, jointed rail with the old, "clickety-clack," sound. Nice horns on that train, though, I know little about them. Good canera work, too. Enjoyed this!
@johntotten16113 жыл бұрын
My first trip to Shasta country was in June 1984. Too bad I couldn't have made it there more often since. I noticed the Sacramento River bridge at about 5:40, before the guard rails were built in place.
@1XRanger3 жыл бұрын
Yes, the new bridge with the heavy guard rails was installed after the July 1991 derailment.
@PirateAdmiral-bx6sx4 жыл бұрын
I Miss the Sugar Cane Train
@brianfalzon67394 жыл бұрын
Should get whistles like that for both 3751 and Strasburg 90.
@camsmith76514 жыл бұрын
Absolutely filthy engines
@jacksalvin3644 жыл бұрын
2:52
@jacksalvin3644 жыл бұрын
1:17
@rickeyhall42545 жыл бұрын
Southern Pacific Started Removing the Gyra lights long before up took over, Starting in the mid to late Eighties.
@jacksalvin3645 жыл бұрын
Some Southern Pacific Survivors.
@kenpalmer19655 жыл бұрын
That was neat seeing that caboose at the end and the brakeman waving! What a very nostalgic sight for us railroaders!
@penelopemurfitt69745 жыл бұрын
2:07 They just shunt their waggons into danger and say the job is done!
@trainman22265 жыл бұрын
thats called a hump yard
@Redwagon2012 Жыл бұрын
Yea
@christopherorourke65435 жыл бұрын
Great coverage of the former Southern Pacific Railroad. My most favorite Amtrak route is the entire West Coast Route of the Pacific Surfliners/Coast Starlight/Capital Corridor between Sacramento & San Diego.
@WilliamCreator575 жыл бұрын
Nice
@mikewhite7675 жыл бұрын
I remember the days when sp used all the tracks in California I miss the sd40t-2 tunnel motors!
@ShawnyNorburn6 жыл бұрын
Cool
@Mark-jl6tl6 жыл бұрын
So nice to see footage of the Espee in it's glorious days when lumber was king. Apologies for turning a sour note, but isn't it funny how the majority of lumber products now comes from our friends north of the border, eeh?. I suppose there is no such thing as a Canadian Spotted Owl, or maybe they built a wall high enough to keep them out. Now, the UP or BNSF (if CN or CP don't manage to take them over first) can haul carloads of ash and debris from what's left of our forests and communities. Pretty obvious our radical enviro and trade laws haven't worked out too well for the US, now have they? Sorry. Thanks again for posting this footage....it sure brings back lots of great memories.
@ShawnyNorburn6 жыл бұрын
Amazing!! Love the caboose too
@larou146 жыл бұрын
Ohhh là là là….quel magnifique vieux train !!! ;-)
@robertmiller52176 жыл бұрын
Sigh........ I am a third generation rail on both sides of my family with over 325 years combined seniority, the majority of which was with the SP. This video is bittersweet to me and to say it induces melancholy is a huge understatement. I am a retired SP hoghead making my date in Roseville in 1973. In July ‘83 I transferred my seniority to the Oregon Division at Dunsmuir. The following summer (July, 1984) I was promoted to Road Foreman of Engines, headquartered at Dunsmuir and as an instructor to new hires and remedial training where needed. I returned to sanity in Summer 1986 and quit the officer bit to mark up on the engineer’s extra board. And I worked from Roseville to Sparks, Roseville to Fresno, Roseville to Oakland, Roseville to Dunsmuir, Dunsmuir to Stockton, Dunsmuir to Klamath Falls, Dunsmuir to Wendell on the Modoc Sub and Dunsmuir to Medford, Oregon, on the Siskiyou Sub. While it is a fact that I ran yellow engines until my retirement, I was NEVER Union Pacific, a sentiment shared by all of us in that era. Anyway, thanks for the video. It speaks highly of the SP people who were the best rails on the planet, especially when it came to operations in heavy grade territory, where I worked my whole career. And you know what? It was fun then, even if you were having a crappy trip because you liked the guys you were working with. And someone always had your back. The SP was known as "The Friendly Railroad." Its people were the reason why it was so.
@chineechik5 жыл бұрын
Robert Miller ‘remedial training’. Lol. Nowadays they just fire you. Spend 14 weeks training you and the rest of your career trying to fire you.
@TheClosetBranch4 жыл бұрын
Hi Rob, I totally agree. People the one move railroad not equipment.
@darrelljones59602 жыл бұрын
This has to be the best ive read in a while. Yeah and now UP has just ruined it after their merger. Ive heard good and bad things about UP so idk. The Heritage unit of the SP looks just so good tho its amazing.
@darrelljones59602 жыл бұрын
This has to be the best ive read in a while. Yeah and now UP has just ruined it after their merger. Ive heard good and bad things about UP so idk. The Heritage unit of the SP looks just so good tho its amazing.
@darrelljones59602 жыл бұрын
This has to be the best ive read in a while. Yeah and now UP has just ruined it after their merger. Ive heard good and bad things about UP so idk. The Heritage unit of the SP looks just so good tho its amazing.
@ricardojuricic90276 жыл бұрын
Hi as usual when watching an SP video I LOOK into it searching for Amador Central (AMC) cars. On 1.34 and 1.38 some light blue Goergia Pacific caught my attention. . Please, would you have any video with AMC cars? Thanks tons if you could link me to it😊 . Great video!! Thanks!! Cheers Richard ps. always keen on AMC/AFRR & SP
@fredlohmann14486 жыл бұрын
A COUPLE OF THEM WERE IDILING!
@fredlohmann14486 жыл бұрын
UNION PACIFIC had rotary beacons on thier GP9' SD40''s SD9's GE's SWITCHERS back then! i saw them! they's on the films made of early diesels of UP!
@gordonvincent7316 жыл бұрын
The best sound in railroading. EMD engines in run 8 or full dynamic braking! I'm a retired engineer and ran a lot of SP engines. I read one comment below about revving up and braking. EMD engines rev up to run 5 rpm when you start the dynamic braking.
@jamesd21287 жыл бұрын
That looked like a real hobo at 2.37, not some thrill seeking KZbinr.
@zr1rob7 жыл бұрын
Lots of empties. Was this one going north to Eugene?
@1XRanger7 жыл бұрын
Yes... An Eastbound by timetable.
@AlexTrain52497 жыл бұрын
Most shrill 5 chime I've ever heard in my life.
@nickel_plate765ftyfilms26 жыл бұрын
same
@MiddleTennesseeRailProductions6 жыл бұрын
Yep. Glad it's not on her anymore. They need to get her original DRGW 5-chime she had in the 90's back on there!
@modelrailroadguy24725 жыл бұрын
I like that whistle! Very shrill, and I love that!