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X4449 Daylight and the Tough Guys movie train running eastbound south of Santa Barbara at Pt. Fernald on the then Southern Pacific Coastline route heading for Los Angeles in 1986.
An afternoon Caltrain commute run speeds across the old bridge over Quint Street in San Francisco. The bridge is one of a dwindling number of bridges still lettered for the SP. It was built in 1907, just after the San Francisco earthquake.
A westbound stack train crosses the Colorado River and enters California at Yuma Crossing on UP's ex-SP Sunset Route. The 1923 SP-built single-track thru-truss bridge was erected next to the single-lane Coast-to-Coast highway bridge built in 1915. When it was completed, the Coast-to-Coast bridge...
Stopping for a crew change across the Colorado River in Yuma, AZ, the engineer of this train managed to line up these couplers with a rocky outcropping and the bell tower of St Thomas Mission church in Winterhaven, CA.
The one-eyed sentinel at MP 7607 on UP's ex-SP Sunset Route stares blankly around a curve, waiting for a westbound to protect on the right-hand track. There won't be any this afternoon as everything's running on the left set of rails.
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