A meet on the Siskiyou Line - a train of empties proceeds eastward up the main line while a westbound waits in the siding at Gazelle.
An eastbound train on the Siskiyou Line waits short of the west switch at Gazelle for an opposing train out of Ashland. The west switch at Gazelle was the end of a CTC district on the Siskiyou tha... (more)
Four tunnel motors and two SD-45s are in run 8 and they grind uphill over the bridge just below Tehachapi Loop. The Oil Cans train usually required at least 4 units on the point, with 5 to 6 unit... (more)
SP 8305 East accelerates after crossing the Mokelumne River in Lodi as a pig train out of Portland, OR, waits in the siding at Acampo.
On a sunny afternoon in March 1975, SP's Valley-Mountain Dispatcher is busy trying to unravel a traffic jam at Bealville on Tehachapi as 8305 West drops downgrade around another manifest in the ho... (more)
Having run around two other trains waiting to go west, SP 8305 West drops down out of Allard and heads into tunnel 2.
SP SD40T-2 8305 is about to pass under its train as it heads downgrade around the famed Tehachapi Loop on August 31, 1977. Midtrain helpers are SP 9084 and 8468, along with BN RCC 108.
The dispatcher has been forced to put a hot pig train in the hole at Acampo to allow an eastbound manifest on short time to hold the main.
UP Southbound Vehicle Train at Hoxie, Ar. with an SP SD40T-2 on the point
