Cajon Pass & Colton 1986 (Note comment by Mike O'Neill below)

May 4, 1986: Some scenes in Cajon between Devore & Blue Cut, incl. EB freight w/ business car ATSF 58. Plus some SP and UP action at Colton Crossing on the same day.

[@user-sh9du2nv5y]

Todays Trains have no sole without the Caboose. Love those old Cabooses.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

For trains with 2 man crews there's nobody to ride back there.

[@fraucow]

"soul"?

[@HobbiesRfun]

I live in Redlands Ca. which is just a half hour drive from that diamond crossing in Colton. This is my favorite railfanning location in the Inland Empire, and this brings back fond memories of watching trains there in the mid eighties. I'll miss this location when I move to Salt Lake City in a few months, but I'll get some really cool new locations to watch trains up there. I picture spending quite a few weekend days, when the weather is warmer, in the neighboring city of Ogden as my new railfanning area.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Wait 'till you see Echo & Weber canyons. Thanks for the comment.

[@voidwalker9223]

back when trains use to have many distinct locos. Today its just GE4400s and some newer SD70s you see on the big mainlines.

[@davidmihevc3990]

Great footage! Love seeing those Geeps and tunnel motors again. Not sure why, but always thought that SP Golden Pig Service logo was cool. Amazing seeing trains with no graffiti. Seems like overnight at some point it was everywhere. Now its rare to see a single freight car not tagged.

[@TheEventRecorder]

Excellent Footage!...I remember.

[@whiteknightcat]

This seems like only last week I was seeing so much of this equipment, yet this is over 30 years ago. So much of it is gone now, and that pretty lady engineer is now a granny in her 60's or 70's. Can you just imagine the treat for her grandkids to hear her tell stories of when she used to drive trains?

[@rustyscupper2936]

Calls herself 'sexy grandma'!

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

Hope y'all know nobody can "drive" a train, the tracks do that. It's a machine operator that's all.😂

[@whiteknightcat]

@@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw As I said, she would be speaking to hypothetical grandkids, in terms they could understand.

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

@@whiteknightcat Sorry I just get hooked when people say drive the goofball 💪💯😎

[@rustyscupper2936]

I saw one of the first ordered SP B30-7s in 1978 at Newhall Yard, Santa Clara CA. First new power for Sp in quite a few years at that time.

[@stevenikitas8170]

Love the see-through tunnel motor screens. And NO GRAFFITI! Missouri Pacific with a lady engineer... and cabooses...

[@qora01m]

Thumbs up! I liked the video. And I also the sound was absolutely ok.

[@JDsHouseofHobbies]

All those old SP GP9s. I grew up with those and SD9s in the Bay Area.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thanks for the comment.

[@rtd1409]

Great vid I would later get SSW 8373 as UP 2907 repainted and ironically I got it about 20 feet to the right of where you stood as it was on the Colton Wye when I got it there.

[@scoobycarr5558]

What's nice about this is that Santa Fe and Southern Pacific had their boxcars having "Hydra Cushion" and "Super Shock Control" to advertise their freight services.

[@CNW_GALENA_DIV.]

Great stuff. Thank you

[@philipvandyke5980]

Amazing seeing a woman engineer in 1986. Fantastic driving MP

[@petejensen1246]

You don’t see many boxcars anymore. And not a caboose in 25 years

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

Look it up here ol Pete. I saw a short with one posted just 2 ago.

[@jerry91a]

I miss seeing those long lash ups.

[@chriskemper9344]

Awesome!

[@volvofl180]

Railroading will never be the same without the Southern Pacific and het fleet of EMD's. Hope the see you back once.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thanks for the comment.

[@mikeflynn1629]

I really miss The southern Pacific the Santa Fe and the Union Pacific have a separate entities in LA. It was in 197 7 I started watching trains at Fullerton Depot I was mesmerized with the speed they went through there. Introduced to cajon pass shortly afterward s plenty of viewing up there for years on end. I was much much younger than I'm sure glad I was there to witness it. One more thing all those engines sound a lot louder than anything I see nowadays gosh I love that.

[@kenmunozatmmrrailroad6853]

Nice to see the ol' SP

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thanks for the comment.

[@elizabethpate2740]

I like the railroads ATSF and SP.

[@anderswakatsuki]

Great stuff!

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thank You. I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Have nice holidays.

[@scoobycarr5558]

I think Southern Pacific called their Z intermodal trains the Blue Streak Merchandise.

[@remylopez4821]

I believe that was there a subsidiary the cotton belt

[@HobbiesRfun]

If I told you back then the Union Pacific would be operating a Big Boy locomotive up, and down Cajon Pass, under it's own power in the year 2019, you'd be thinking, and telling me what mental institution did I escape from. Lol.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

I think you're right.

[@scoobycarr5558]

You would most likely see those old SP "Cadillacs" on the branches in Oregon and not exactly in West Colton.

[@davegeisler7802]

Today locomotives can just about replace those older units by a factor of 3 to 2

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

😂😂😂🎉👍

[@andrewjolly4640]

At 13:02, There’s a guy in a freight car 😕 homeless

[@vidwilzvids9587]

That was actually the brakeman riding back to West Colton after making the double-over in the transfer yard. Thanks for the comment.

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

He's not homeless he lives on planet earth 😂 That's like saying my boxcar apt. For $785 a month is a homeless pad.

[@ApproachAspect]

Was that the conductor/brakeman or a hobo hopping on the last SP boxcar at 14:24?

[@vidwilzvids9587]

That was a transient that appeared to be not knowing where he was going. Not too far ahead is West Colton yard where he almost certainly would have been spotted by SPRR police. The train was pulling through the yard to be shoved up the hump by the hump power. Thanks for commenting.

[@ApproachAspect]

I was surprised he hopped on the end ladder. Transients usually like the open boxcars...

[@obkb1]

He's lucky he didn't end up under the wheels.

[@MrGatesmark]

What are most of those locos on the first train, C36;s?

[@vidwilzvids9587]

SF30C, SD40-2, SD45, SD40-2, C30-7, C30-7, U36C, B23-7, & C30-7. The lead SF30C is a de-rated conversion from a U36C.

[@MrGatesmark]

Thanks!

[@michaelmorgan7893]

I wonder if that Southern trailer got burglarized. That's not normal seeing the door flopped open.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

If the open door was spotted by a crew rolling the train by the train would have to be stopped and a crew member would have to walk back and close it. Vandalized trailers and containers were a frequent occurrence in Cajon Pass.

[@michaelmorgan7893]

@@vidwilzvids9587 one time in 2005, a friend and I were following the santa fe line north of wasco on 43, when we see a parked train with TOFC/COFC, and a black car parked along the shoulder. From between two cars of the train we see a kid climb out with two car starters/ alternators in each arm. By the time we thought to call the BNSF police, the train had moved on.

[@scoobycarr5558]

@@vidwilzvids9587 I wonder if this vandalism still happens today? That's why BNSF wants the public to get involved in a program that allows people to work with railroad police to apprehend vandals and trespassers. Same here for Union Pacific.

[@reecehaire3232]

13:02 I think he's lost

[@vidwilzvids9587]

The brakeman riding back to the yard after a double-over.

[@christopherchoice106]

Can someone tell me was that a lady in that mopac locomotive

[@vidwilzvids9587]

She most certainly was. A UP friend told me her name (which I have since forgotten) AND that she was married at the time.

[@mstrawn69]

Kodachrome!

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Wind noise on the mic - always a sign of rank amateurism.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Your channel says: "This channel has no content." Not surprising.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

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[@vidwilzvids9587]

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[@4wdiesels]

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[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

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