An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe piggyback train stops in San Bernardino for a crew change. This train, most likely symbolled 891, has ATSF SD45-2 5670 teamed with C30-7 8019, GP50 3823, C30-7 8123 and an SD45 (the number of which is not legible in this photo), and will be heading east once again heading to Cajon Pass and points east with its new crew – although they will have to slow for the caboose on the rear to drop off the old conductor and pick up the new one, waiting trackside. The Mount Vernon Street viaduct over the ATSF's A Yard is now gone, as is the old tower, the parking lot … heck, even the Santa Fe Railway is no more! But the skinny guy and the two-year-old he's holding, attempting to get him to be a railfan, are both still around (although that then-toddler is now taller than me, and was I really ever that skinny?), and photographer Ron Hawkins is still active and posting photos online quite a bit! So not everything seen here is gone. (San Bernardino, California – July 7, 1985). Ron Hawkins Photograph, Craig Walker Collection
