Classic SP, big, grungy looking EMD's lugging it out over the mountains, thanks for the shot and the memories!
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Digging to the West, eh, Don? Nice!
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I can feel the earth shake and smell the diesel exhaust!!! Wonderful photograph, Donald
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Seeing a UP unit on an Espee train was a big deal back in the seventies. Great memories for sure Don.
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Outstanding.
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| Posted by larrym on March 19, 2010 | |
If anyone wanted to know what the SP was all about,this picture and description speaks volumes. Well done,Donald.
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I agree with LarryM, that shot opitimizes Tehachapi! You can another scent to the description, many of the boxcars hauled eastward over the pass were hauling lumber from Oregon. The doors of the boxcars were left ajar as to help dry the lumber, you couldn't miss that smell of green lumber eminationg from the cars.
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Classic Espee photograph. SP will always be remembered for the dirty looking EMD's, it goes to show that they were working! Thanks Donald.
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Classic shot Don! You can smell the traction motors burning up!
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That's 46440 cubic inches of turbo charged two stroke EMD fury emitting that sweet undullating super low bass sound that'll rattle windows to within an inch of their lives! No doubt you could hear that coming from miles away! And ,if this were the average train of the day, there were probably six more EMD brutes stuffed in about 2/3's of the way back doing the same thing.
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Great shot! This will be my new desktop background!
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| Posted by huebi on March 21, 2010 | |
This is Esspee´s cover of John Lennon´s "Working class hero"
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On second thought, Don, this might be number 1. Amazing location, amazing photo
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