With a light rain falling, freshly painted Santa Fe 1569 sits along with other SPSF merger paint scheme locomotives and slug units in primer paint outside of the San Bernardino engine shops.
Photographer Dave Stanley scurries back to the photographer's Plymouth Valiant after getting a shot of a Santa Fe York Canyon Coal Train at Martinez Spur on Cajon Pass.
Not long after the Soo bought the MN&S the pair of MN&S SD39's started to roam system wide. Equipped with Hancock air whistles and with an amber flasher above the front walkway the units presented... (more)