Southern Pacific in Mt. Shasta

Southern Pacific in Mt. Shasta - 1984

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Video shot in the summer of 1984. Scenes of the Mt. Shasta, CA. area of the Southern Pacific RR including Sidings at Mott-Azalea, Cantera, and Upton.

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@darrelljones5960 2 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.

@robertmiller5217 6 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.

@chineechik 5 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.

@TheClosetBranch 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Rob, I totally agree. People the one move railroad not equipment.

@darrelljones5960 2 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.

@darrelljones5960 2 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.

@trainknut 2 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.

@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.

@David-nl1zt 8 жыл бұрын

I remember how friendly the train crews were back then. They would always wave at you.

@antdogg2946 5 жыл бұрын

If you were white only

@carlzipperman6689 4 жыл бұрын

@@antdogg2946 Maybe because "others" tend to throw rocks at them. "Ant Dogg? Let me guess! Lol

@johntotten1611 3 жыл бұрын

I've heard that UP does not allow train crews to put any part of their bodies outside the cab, and that includes waving trackside. At least they can still blow the horn.

@justinratcliffe947 2 жыл бұрын

@@johntotten1611 Fuck the Union Pacific. Theyre such a tyrannical ass scumbag corporation. Always have been always will be.

@justinratcliffe947 2 жыл бұрын

Now they'll flip you off or even throw things at you the assholes

@Mark-jl6tl 5 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.

@jamesbroderick726 9 жыл бұрын

One of the better vintage SP videos on KZbin. Surprised at the low number of views. A new title might bring more visits. The sound (and angles) on some of your passing shots is first rate...

@keithode1737 8 жыл бұрын

I know right. I constantly search for SP videos of this type yet only recently came across this after having passed over viewing it for a couple of years because the title isn't provocative enough. The sound more than makes up for the lack of video quality, which is understandable. Not many videos with real time sound recorded in 1984. When I first watched it and heard the eastbound in the third sequence I was blown away. The constant helper action, the chill, friendly crews, the McCloud River per-diem boxcars and classic Shasta action from the 80's, this video is in my top three for sure.

@1XRanger 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks.. I'll think about a different title.

@stripervince1 2 жыл бұрын

Loved SP. I was a signalman in the 1980s in LA district. Great time to work there before its demise

@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.

@tommythomason6187 3 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!

@mikewhite767 5 жыл бұрын

I remember the days when sp used all the tracks in California I miss the sd40t-2 tunnel motors!

@ricardojuricic9027 6 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

@johntotten1611 3 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.

@1XRanger 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the new bridge with the heavy guard rails was installed after the July 1991 derailment.

@scottkew6278 10 ай 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.