Ah, pacing a high-speed SP train ... THAT brings back some great memories.
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I'm with Joel on this one. I remember being perched on my buddy's passenger door with a camera on the roof at 60 mph getting shot's like this. Ahh the memories.
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This is the exact area where 10 years later I would fall in love with the Espee! We lived in San Diego at the time, but we had friends of the family that lived in a neighborhood near the tracks in Rosamond. On visits up there I would walk over to the tracks and watch the trains roll through town. The things that I remember most were that a lot of the trains had a bunch of engines up front and even more mid-train, waving to the crews in the engines and the cabooses, how the oscillating headlights could be seen for miles waving through the heat waves rising above the tracks, I saw my first Kodachrome engine here, and the memory that is most prominent, I always used to think that the open area at the back of the tunnel motors was where the crews of the trains were to stow their luggage (grips). I couldn't tell one engine from another at the time and just figured that they all had compartments back there only that some had their doors closed. I was 11 and 12 at the time and have learned a lot since then. I miss all of it.
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Oh baby...nothing better than pacing Espee along Sierra Highway!
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Another great place to pace the Espee was on the Edison Highway from Bakersfield to Bena. The long nose SD40T-2 "snoot" was one of my favorites. Great photo, brings back a lot of memories.
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