UP, SP and SANTA FE Cajon Pass

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Look back at a grand era that featured three class one independent roads with first and second generation power. This big time mountain style of railroading will never be seen again-but this feature brings it back for your enjoyment.
Don't miss the years of the UP, Santa Fe and Southern Pacific, as they all
developed the need for more locomotive power to combat the longer trains,
faster schedules and heavy grades. See "E-Units" and "Centennials" when
they were working in real freight and passenger service. Big Tunnel Motors and EMD SD-40 and SD-45s smoking it up on Tank Trains and giant manifests! This 1 HR and 38 Minute film has generous helpings of clean views of older freight cars and vintage trailers, after the power goes by and is a goldmine for railfans and modelers who want to see "how it was". Many trains also have multiple manned helpers and cabooses, in an era with no graffiti. Learn the story of Union Pacific's monumental quest for bigger diesels and more power! DD-40X Centennials, DD-35B's and Turbines all show up putting on a show! These are all time views of 2 monumental landmarks of western railroading at many locations, in all seasons! These are all epic railroading Visions, you can no longer see today!
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[@averageguy7136]

Awesome video. Really love the historical rail fanning. Now preserved on youtube for eternity.

[@mikeflynn1629]

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

[@alcosteam]

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.

[@markjohnson4924]

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.

[@derrickwong5337]

Wonderful!

[@J3scribe]

UP reached Chicago with the Missouri Pacific merger, albeit in a roundabout way by MP subsidiary Chicago & Eastern Illinois via St. Louis.

[@theragingdolphinsmaniac4696]

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

[@J3scribe]

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.

[@Bobby-bp2ok]

Great job 😊