SP & ATSF at Tehachapi 1993

April 9, 1993: SP & ATSF trains at Tehachapi locations; incl. ill-fated ATSF 96 warbonnet FP45.

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

What a great time to be there. The SO hauled so much lumber. Great engines, great sounds, loved those SP P-3 horns, and NO graffiti!! Wonderful video!

[@ole_cool8892]

RIP ATSF 96😢

[@StaceyV51]

The beautiful emd sound of turning a combustible liquid in to a symphony!

[@jarrietfair6497]

I miss them both Santa fe and southern pacific trains. Those were great memories and the good old days

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thanks for the comment.

[@SailorMoonRailfan]

If I was born in September 1971 instead of 2001, then I will see and record the old railroads of California and survive the earthquakes too. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@joelsmith7896]

Nice video those dirty oil SP Tunnel Motors from the 80s and 90s will always have a special place in my heart gotta love'em.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

I was pretty lucky on that shoot. Thanks for the comment.

[@Mr6stringchaos]

Your videos take me back to being a kid, railfanning all over California!!

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thanks for the comment. Am7 - D6/9.

[@likestallwomen]

Love it, I was a Senior in HS and took every opportunity to railfan SP and Santa Fe at Mojave since I went to school there, even during the week of my graduation, nice video

[@TommyPicklesFan]

Ah Yes, Nothing Like Seeing Old SP and ATSF Power before their merging days.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

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[@What_If_We_Tried]

Thanks for uploading this video, and I'm looking forward to watching your other videos as well. * subscribed *

[@JDsHouseofHobbies]

Wow! The difference between the SP and the ATSF is astonishing!

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thanks for the comment.

[@AUSSIETRAINDRIVER]

Wow that was impressive! Loving these old vids!

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thanks for the comment! I subbed and will definitely be exploring your channel. I am a retired U.S. "train driver". And I love Dr. Blake Mysteries!

[@NYSWWC6633]

Nice! Thanks for posting. Really enjoy the SP. Keep them coming!

[@vidwilzvids9587]

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[@cagorrie]

Great videos, thanks for sharing them !

[@vidwilzvids9587]

I enjoyed yours too. Thanks for the comment.

[@jacksalvin364]

Santa Fe FP45 96 met her faith under the scrapper's toruch after the 1994 Cajon Runaway Rear end Collision along with B40-8w 576, F45 5976 and GP60M 144.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thanks for the comment.

[@jacksalvin364]

Anytime.

[@bryce2680]

Beyond FANTASTIC!!!

[@vidwilzvids9587]

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[@elizabethpate2740]

I like ATSF FP45 96's look. It looks like a warbonnet. The locomotive got involved in a crash in 1994.

[@AVeryRandomPerson]

96 was destroyed in a Cajon Pass runaway, as many a Santa Fe loco was.

[@gullwing3658]

I loved going through Tehachapi growing up, looking for those blue and yellow engines growing up, the red and silver were okay too. Hate those orange and black things now.

[@washingtonstaterailproduct5382]

Awesome video!

[@O-PAC]

These SP and Santa Fe SD40-2/T-2 are more interesting to watch than the modern day UP and BNSF.

[@myeyeisnotblue]

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing. Henry

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thank You for the comment.

[@FreihEitner]

Very nice catches.

[@itsjusttyler5315]

5:42 when you manage to video a train hopper

[@timosha21]

Choo choo! I'm a train and I approve this video!

[@scoobycarr5558]

At 1:58 about 20 cars back in the train a foretaste of what would be coming in the years ahead for the Tehachapi Line - Union Pacific.

[@k5elevencinc0]

Probably the only video of engine 96.

[@scoobycarr5558]

And at 10:20 in the intermodal train a foretaste of what would be coming in the years ahead for the Tehachapi Line - Burlington Northern Santa Fe aka BNSF.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Thanks for the comments.

[@privateerbouncher9622]

5:41 free ride.

[@timothybarham6374]

It looked like a woman.

[@Sacto1654]

This was back in the days when it was interesting to be a railfan. Nowadays, it's mostly modern wide cab locomotives pulling mostly container trains, sometimes with locomotive cut into the consist in DPU mode.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Makes you wonder how things will be like 30 yrs. from NOW. Thanks for the comment.

[@beeble2003]

Not gonna dispute the lack of variety in motive power and paint schemes but there's still a ton of non-containerized freight on the rails. Varies depending on where you are, of course.

[@Sacto1654]

@@beeble2003 There's still mostly containerized freight in California due to Oakland and Long Beach ports nearby. See a lot more variety in the US Midwest, though.

[@beeble2003]

5:40 Ouch. Hobo sitting on a shiftable load. Ironically, there's an open box car on the train but he presumably wasn't aware of that.

[@daviddowling9830]

The ESPEEE,dirty,smokey,,noisy, perfect.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

That's poetic!

[@stripervince1]

SPSF. HAHAHA reminds me of the days when I worked right there in the 1980s

[@redbarnz]

Old school, heavy-duty hauling freight over the hills of California by SP!

[@vidwilzvids9587]

"Images of yesteryear". Thanks for the comment.

[@darthcreaper8173]

I should really come out to Tehachapi Loop!!! However, since I live in Seattle, it would be about 2 or 3 days. Probably worth it, though! I've seen the Iron Triangle in Ohio, though. That was cool! I also need to see the UP Bailey Yard in Nebraska.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Bailey has a visitor's "observation tower" and a constant parade of trains between there and Gibbon. In-your-face UP.

[@carlzipperman6689]

Tehachapi Loop was a great place to spend a day or two. Unfortunately it's no longer accessable to the public, at least by car. Been that way for over 10 years.

[@dominichetherington2287]

The last train the second from last car look like a 50s era tank car ????surely not at this date !!!!!somebody tell me I'm dreaming

[@corneliusadeola7261]

You caught ATSF 96 a 1 year 8 months and 11 days before it was wrecked

[@vidwilzvids9587]

FYI, 96 was ATSF 5946 when in bluebonnet scheme. Thanks for the informative comment.

[@corneliusadeola7261]

vidwilzvids no problem

[@johnhorton260]

Thanks for your great videos!

[@tracedog27]

The lack of graffiti is astounding.

[@enjoyingrailroading1013]

👍🏾

[@elizabethpate2740]

These are the locomotives that I'v seen are built (Exept SP EMD SD40T-2, ATSF SD45 #5383, ATSF GE U30CG #8058, and ATSF Rebuilt EMD SD45-2u) SP EMD SD40T-2 #8386: June 1979 SP EMD GP40-2 #7667: March 1980 SP Rebuilt EMD SD40R #7369: April 1966 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8310: February 1978 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8550: January 1979 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8275: June 1980 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8381: May 1979 SP EMD SD40T-2 #8547: January 1979 ATSF EMD SD40-2 #5066: April 1979 ATSF EMD SD40-2 #5118: October 1979 ATSF Rebuilt EMD SD40u #5002: April 1966 ATSF EMD FP45 #96: December 1967 ATSF Rebuilt EMD GP30u #2701: April 1962

[@elizabethpate2740]

It also exeps ATSF SD45 #5320

[@elizabethpate2740]

Also exeps ATSF SD45 #5380

[@elizabethpate2740]

But it also has ATSF SD40 #5019 which was built in April 1966

[@vidwilzvids9587]

A little confused. Are you saying that you have seen all those locomotives before? I used to know a guy that kept a log that went back to UP turbines. Also, I think ATSF #8058 is a C30-7. Thanks for the comment.

[@elizabethpate2740]

@@vidwilzvids9587 ATSF EMD FP45 #96 was wrecking at Cajon in 1994 and scrapped.

[@joshthetrainfan]

11:19 ofc that stupid hunk of junk is on the back lmao those things were unpredictable. 13:00 Ohhhh...that's the one that was lost at Cajon three years later...

[@David-nl1zt]

SF kept their units clean, SP just stopped washing theirs. Towards the end of SP, everything just looked dirty and worn sadly.

[@vidwilzvids9587]

Railfans used to describe that as "SP deferred maintenance". Thanks for the comment.

[@Henry5623]

That was mostly because clean locomotives don't perform any better then dirty ones. So as far as SP was concerned the money that would have needed to be spent to maintain aesthetics and keep the equipment clean wasn't going to yield any financial return. Just money spent for no justifiable reason during an era when SP was fighting hard to dig themselves out of the financial hole they were in all throughout the 80's and into the early 90's. Any money they could scrape up was already spent trying to keep the motive power running to begin with; not necessarily looking it's best. The irony being that while ATSF's power was kept cleaner, it still didn't buy them much more time since before the 90's came to an end the ATSF would be gone too. The 90's really were a decade of hell for railroading. We went from the big seven to the big four and those that survived the 90's ran head first into the financial downfalls of the 2000's just to add insult to injury. Sad to say but had the big seven not been merged down to the big four some of those original seven would have left the 90's just to die in the 2000's. If you can't beat your competition or survive on your own, you merge. Railroading 101...

[@David-nl1zt]

@@Henry5623 I know that it was all about the politics of making money in railroading and stiff competition, as well as the logistics. But as a young man growing up in the 70' and the 80's, and seeing the espee in a better time and condition, it made my heart sad to see it fade away literally to black. I hold fond memories of a better time when I knew little about life, but my heart would race when I heard a train coming. I would not trade my memories of train watching as a kid, for all the money in the world. Long live all the fallen flags that made us love trains!

[@cplark]

You can get the

[@easyamp123]

SP locomotives have notch zero and then 8

[@vidwilzvids9587]

So did every locomotive that I ever operated. Thanks for the comment.

[@m.faisholhafiiz28]

is That Saw 3 ATSF SD40-2 8:17

[@m.faisholhafiiz28]

2x EMD SD40-2 1x SD40-2 Snoot Nose

[@m.faisholhafiiz28]

ATSF C30-7 As Trailing

[@renaldojason]

No graffiti