Nice catch 6:26 gp40x, not to many of those ever made. A little research and I found it's now bnsf 3031 and it looks like as of 2017 when it got fresh paint it's still in service, very cool.
The railroad which had only one GP40* on the roster ended up with the largest fleet of GP40X's, 10 (numbered 3800 to 3809) out of a total of just 23 produced. *Santa Fe's only GP40; numbered 2964 (EX TP&W 1000), if the date in the description is accurate, would meet its demise later that evening in a fiery wreck in Pico Rivera
Thank you for your message the other day. Wow, that is awesome that you were an engineer on the Barnum & Bailey Circus Train!! That must have been so awesome! Small world! In addition to clowning in the circus, I enjoyed train runs between towns, seeing the entire USA from my train room window. Thank you for your awesome videos of the Cajon Pass in the 1980s. I always wanted to video that area myself, too. The busyness of life kept me from having the time. Thank you for capturing my favorite vintage blue and yellow bonnet Santa Fe Locomotives with the red cabooses. Brings back many awesome memories of those times!
Three Missouri Pacific U-boats, in the Union Pacific yellow paint scheme, from the same number sequence running elephant style to open the video. What could be better. Love those blue/yellow Santa Fe units with the silver trucks. Union Pacific also had some silver trucks. Cotton Belt, Southern Pacific, Rio Grande... awesome. Southern Pacific tunnel motors... cool. All long gone.
Heck of a telephoto lens ???one of my most favs of all videos. I also want other video people to do what you do and follow the train a bit slower than it passes to allow more time seeing the cars at near 90 degrees.
1:32 wow, some 4-axle intermodal cars in service! 4:00 nice to see a GE tonner on a flatbed 12:50 I have never seen that thing before! Does anyone know if it has been modeled in HO scale? That SCL autorack at 16:20 looks like the one in front of it but just the roof has been ripped off 28:18 that really short intermodal was a neat catch. Only 9 cars! I saw a 30-car intermodal train back in November 2019 on UP 36:31 Nice to see an ex-Southern high hood in California! 48:10 in days when seeing even only one caboose was rare, you caught a train with three of them! They have long couplers too
The GE 44 tonner came from the US Navy in Seal Beach. The train at 12:50 was a weed sprayer train that was MU'd all the way through like an Amtrak push-pull. Thanks for the comment.
Union Pacific owns the former Southern Pacific tracks that goes from West Colton yard to Mojave. BNSF owns the former Santa Fe tracks that go to Barstow. Union Pacific also has trackage rights over BNSF’s tracks through Barstow to Dagget and towards UP’s Yermo yard.
Although MoPac was bought up by Union Pacific in the 1980s, the railroad wasn't officially merged into UP by the time Southern Pacific came into the fold by 1997.
We used to call them T -TOX cars. They were very light, had severe train placement restrictions, would sometimes climb over a frog, and their wheels would wear out too fast. A boomer from Texas told me about how a yard crew kicked one of these cars (empty) into a track at night, then kicked a string of conventional flats into the same track. Whoever went in to gather up the track found the T -TOX car sitting on top of the ends of the flats on either side of it. Everybody was glad to see them go.
I never anticipated TH-cam or anything like it. When Sony 8mm video came along I was convinced that it made a better archival format than VHS or Beta. I figured that the tapes would last at least until I could transfer them to a digital format with a computer and pro-sumer software. My grandkids aren't into trains.
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these videos are integral to my existence
Thank you for sharing these classic train videos, back when the SDs and Dash 8s were dominant! And I was Born in 88 too 😁
Great video from 1988. Nice shots, great vantage point!
Nice catch 6:26 gp40x, not to many of those ever made. A little research and I found it's now bnsf 3031 and it looks like as of 2017 when it got fresh paint it's still in service, very cool.
The railroad which had only one GP40* on the roster ended up with the largest fleet of GP40X's, 10 (numbered 3800 to 3809) out of a total of just 23 produced.
*Santa Fe's only GP40; numbered 2964 (EX TP&W 1000), if the date in the description is accurate, would meet its demise later that evening in a fiery wreck in Pico Rivera
I remember those days well! We traveled Cajon Pass every weekend!
Thank you for your message the other day. Wow, that is awesome that you were an engineer on the Barnum & Bailey Circus Train!! That must have been so awesome! Small world! In addition to clowning in the circus, I enjoyed train runs between towns, seeing the entire USA from my train room window. Thank you for your awesome videos of the Cajon Pass in the 1980s. I always wanted to video that area myself, too. The busyness of life kept me from having the time. Thank you for capturing my favorite vintage blue and yellow bonnet Santa Fe Locomotives with the red cabooses. Brings back many awesome memories of those times!
And I feel appreciative to have a real Barnum & Bailey performer commenting on my videos. I hope you and your family have great holidays.
Three Missouri Pacific U-boats, in the Union Pacific yellow paint scheme, from the same number sequence running elephant style to open the video. What could be better. Love those blue/yellow Santa Fe units with the silver trucks. Union Pacific also had some silver trucks. Cotton Belt, Southern Pacific, Rio Grande... awesome. Southern Pacific tunnel motors... cool. All long gone.
Those were actually C36-7s that were repainted to Union Pacific livery by 1994. Thank You for the comment.
Unbelievable and amazing to see footage from 1988 in such good quality... 💯💯👍
I love these 90d style videos of trains. There so amazing to watch
@Drew Austin why
@Karter Anders so you got something that hacks insta accs
a blast from the past
nice video bro
It's amazing how green the foliage was back then
Those older trains traveled pretty fast!
Heck of a telephoto lens ???one of my most favs of all videos. I also want other video people to do what you do and follow the train a bit slower than it passes to allow more time seeing the cars at near 90 degrees.
This is history my friend!! Congratulations for vídeo!!
Thank You very much for the positive comment.
At about 10:30 some of those classic Southern Pacific boxcars are still around today.
Thank You again for your comments.
1:32 wow, some 4-axle intermodal cars in service!
4:00 nice to see a GE tonner on a flatbed
12:50 I have never seen that thing before! Does anyone know if it has been modeled in HO scale?
That SCL autorack at 16:20 looks like the one in front of it but just the roof has been ripped off
28:18 that really short intermodal was a neat catch. Only 9 cars! I saw a 30-car intermodal train back in November 2019 on UP
36:31 Nice to see an ex-Southern high hood in California!
48:10 in days when seeing even only one caboose was rare, you caught a train with three of them! They have long couplers too
The GE 44 tonner came from the US Navy in Seal Beach. The train at 12:50 was a weed sprayer train that was MU'd all the way through like an Amtrak push-pull. Thanks for the comment.
10:50
GT - Grand Trunk Railway.
The brand does not exist anymore, but the tracks are still there. It's now owned by CN and Amtrak, I think.
There were Missouri Pacific locomotives that were looked like UP locomotives.
Also, there were some Burlington Northern locomotives on the video.
Which railroad owns the tracks through Cajon Pass?
Union Pacific owns the former Southern Pacific tracks that goes from West Colton yard to Mojave. BNSF owns the former Santa Fe tracks that go to Barstow. Union Pacific also has trackage rights over BNSF’s tracks through Barstow to Dagget and towards UP’s Yermo yard.
Ah, 1:36, the horrible Trailer Train single-axle "FrontRunner" spine cars. Glad those were mothballed.
Every railroader that I know has a story about those cars.
Although MoPac was bought up by Union Pacific in the 1980s, the railroad wasn't officially merged into UP by the time Southern Pacific came into the fold by 1997.
SO THAT ALL EXPLAINS WHY THE FIRST THREE DIESEL ENGINES WERE MISIOURI PACIFIC LEADING UP CAJON PASS IN CALIFORNIA SCOOBY CARR.
C36-7s, at that. Thanks for the comment.
Can you explain? I want to hear a story.
We used to call them T -TOX cars. They were very light, had severe train placement restrictions, would sometimes climb over a frog, and their wheels would wear out too fast. A boomer from Texas told me about how a yard crew kicked one of these cars (empty) into a track at night, then kicked a string of conventional flats into the same track. Whoever went in to gather up the track found the T -TOX car sitting on top of the ends of the flats on either side of it.
Everybody was glad to see them go.
so i have a question where these videos for your grandkids or for fun
im asking this because youtube invited back in 1988
I never anticipated TH-cam or anything like it. When Sony 8mm video came along I was convinced that it made a better archival format than VHS or Beta. I figured that the tapes would last at least until I could transfer them to a digital format with a computer and pro-sumer software. My grandkids aren't into trains.