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5/12/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Rick Morgan
Dates:1/1/1974 - 12/31/2007
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Boarded up, awaiting its fate
Title:  Boarded up, awaiting its fate
Description:  SP's Newark CA depot is closed and boarded up in Dec 1985. Note the wig-wag to the right.
Photo Date:  12/13/1985  Upload Date: 6/26/2009 6:40:28 PM
Location:  Newark, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  185   Comments: 0
UP Switchers at Oakland
Title:  UP Switchers at Oakland
Description:  A pair of UP switchers, SW10 1224 and SW1500 1503, in the Oakland yard
Photo Date:  12/13/1985  Upload Date: 5/25/2012 9:57:09 PM
Location:  Oakland, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 1224(SW10) UP 1503(SW1500)
Views:  338   Comments: 0
UP GP35 787
Title:  UP GP35 787
Description:  UP GP35 787, the former WP 3006, at Milpitas. It only lasted with UP through 1993 and eventually end up with Arizona Eastern.
Photo Date:  12/13/1985  Upload Date: 5/25/2012 9:57:22 PM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 787(GP35)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
UP SW10 1244
Title:  UP SW10 1244
Description:  UP SW10 1244 at Milpitas
Photo Date:  12/13/1985  Upload Date: 5/25/2012 9:57:51 PM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 1244(SW10)
Views:  265   Comments: 0
UP 1503
Title:  UP 1503
Description:  UP 1503 idles at Oakland CA in December 1985; it's a former WP unit and would become UP 1317 in time.
Photo Date:  12/13/1985  Upload Date: 4/6/2008 4:52:03 PM
Location:  Oakland, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 1503(SW1500)
Views:  495   Comments: 0
Late Afternoon on the Monterey Branch
Title:  Late Afternoon on the Monterey Branch
Description:  It's late afternoon at the end of the SP's Monterey Branch while a pair of GP9Es back past a pair of wig-wag signals to work a sand company.
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 1/31/2011 5:18:23 PM
Location:  Monterey, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3804(GP9R)
Views:  899   Comments: 1
UP GP 35 788
Title:  UP GP 35 788
Description:  UP GP36 788 at Milpitas in the East Bay in 1985. A former WP unit.
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 9:12:24 PM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 788(GP35)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
Dragging Cars at Milpitas
Title:  Dragging Cars at Milpitas
Description:  UP 787, a former WP GP35, brings a trainload of autoracks into Milpitas in December 1985
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 9:12:59 PM
Location:  Milpitas, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 787(GP35)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
Crystal Amber Sands
Title:  Crystal Amber Sands
Description:  Industry at Monterey CA, December 1985, with a single SP covered hopper
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 9:13:22 PM
Location:  Monterey, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  136   Comments: 0
Yard Limits on the Monterey branch
Title:  Yard Limits on the Monterey branch
Description:  SP GP9 3882 leads the Monterey local into town in December 1985; 3804 trails. At one time the SP branch ran down through the Cannery Row part of the city, famed from the novel by John Steinbeck. By the time of this shot the line had been shortened to a couple of industries on the east side.
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 2/28/2008 9:10:04 PM
Location:  Monterey, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 3882(GP9R)
Views:  763   Comments: 1
SP Monterey local headed west
Title:  SP Monterey local headed west
Description:  SP's Monterey local heads down the branch behind a pair of GP9s in Dec 1985.
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 2/28/2008 9:10:20 PM
Location:  Seaside, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3882(GP9R)
Views:  598   Comments: 0
SP GP9E  3339
Title:  SP GP9E 3339
Description:  SP GP9E 3339 switching at Watsonville Jct CA in December 1985
Photo Date:  12/31/1985  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 6:18:18 PM
Location:  Watsonville Junction, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3339(GP9R)
Views:  460   Comments: 0
SP GP9E 3328
Title:  SP GP9E 3328
Description:  Espee GP9E 3328 in between local work in the Monterey area in December 1985
Photo Date:  12/31/1985  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 6:19:00 PM
Location:  Watsonville Junction, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3328(GP9R)
Views:  239   Comments: 0
Head On at Fullerton
Title:  Head On at Fullerton
Description:  Santa Fe GP9U 2299 at Fullerton CA in 1986
Photo Date:  8/29/1986  Upload Date: 1/31/2011 12:53:47 PM
Location:  Fullerton, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2299(GP9u)
Views:  262   Comments: 2
Running Up Cajon
Title:  Running Up Cajon
Description:  Four UP units drag a piggy back train up Cajon Pass in 1986. SD60s 6024 and 6006 are assisted by SD40-2s 3327 and 3329.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 7/18/2010 7:07:02 PM
Location:  Cajon, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 6024(SD60)
Views:  308   Comments: 3
100 Cylinders Converting Fuel to Noise
Title:  100 Cylinders Converting Fuel to Noise
Description:  Five '45s (four SD45s and an F45) run flat out as they ascend Cajon Pass from the west.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 8/12/2010 9:49:01 PM
Location:  Cajon, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 5383(SD45u)
Views:  382   Comments: 1
Nine units at Mormon Rocks
Title:  Nine units at Mormon Rocks
Description:  Nine big EMDs, a mix of SP and Cotton Belt SDs, bring a train downgrade at Mormon Rocks in the summer of 1986
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 10/11/2008 10:04:03 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 9170(SD45T-2)
Views:  640   Comments: 0
SP Lines on Cajon Pass
Title:  SP Lines on Cajon Pass
Description:  Four EMD Tunnel Motors bring a train down Cajon Pass elephant style in 1986; 9403, 9382, 8315, 8356.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 10/11/2008 10:04:23 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SSW 9403(SD45T-2)
Views:  1063   Comments: 6
Climbing Cajon
Title:  Climbing Cajon
Description:  Three Santa Fe units run a train up Cajon Pass in August 1986. C30-7 8030 is assisted by 5259 and 8742; a pair of GP35s are assisting on the rear.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 1:03:46 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 8030(C30-7)
Views:  252   Comments: 1
GP35s at the San Bernardino Shops
Title:  GP35s at the San Bernardino Shops
Description:  A pair of Santa Fe GP35s sit by the road's San Bernardino Shops in August 1986
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 1:23:48 PM
Location:  San Bernardino, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2885(GP35u) ATSF 2882(GP35u)
Views:  622   Comments: 2
Helpers
Title:  Helpers
Description:  A pair of Santa Fe GP35s help push a train up Cajon Pass
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/18/2008 7:06:00 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 2928(GP35u)
Views:  303   Comments: 1
Santa Fe climbing the hill
Title:  Santa Fe climbing the hill
Description:  My first trip to Cajon- and here we have six units working upgrade; there are two pushing as well.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/18/2008 7:06:16 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 8043(C30-7)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
ATSF 5213
Title:  ATSF 5213
Description:  Pretty much "Generic Cajon Pass", almost a matched set of SD40-2s and F45s, other than the one (5977) in Kodachrome.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 1/18/2008 7:06:24 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5213(SD40-2)
Views:  567   Comments: 0
Santa Fe Local on the Escondido Branch
Title:  Santa Fe Local on the Escondido Branch
Description:  Three units bring the Santa Fe's Escondido local west towards Oceanside in 1986.
Photo Date:  9/2/1986  Upload Date: 2/5/2011 11:19:28 AM
Location:  Vista, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2962(GP35u)
Views:  796   Comments: 2
ATSF switching
Title:  ATSF switching
Description:  Near the end of the 22 mile Escondido branch in southwest California a trio of Santa Fe Geeps work an industry.
Photo Date:  9/2/1986  Upload Date: 1/16/2008 11:01:37 PM
Location:  Escondido, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 2960(GP35u)
Views:  640   Comments: 0
ATSF 2962
Title:  ATSF 2962
Description:  The Escondido local returns to Oceanside in Sept 1986. The first unit used to work for the TP&W.
Photo Date:  9/2/1986  Upload Date: 1/18/2008 7:06:45 PM
Location:  Vista, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 2962(GP35u)
Views:  718   Comments: 0
UP switcher and slug in the LA basin
Title:  UP switcher and slug in the LA basin
Description:  UP SW1500 1318 and slug S9 sit in a yard in Los Angeles in December 1987. 1318, an ex-MP unit, was sold only a year later and became CSL 18.
Photo Date:  12/26/1987  Upload Date: 12/22/2008 11:09:43 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 1318(SW1500) UP S9(Yard Slug)
Views:  4263   Comments: 1
Headed for Holtville
Title:  Headed for Holtville
Description:  A pair of SP SW1500s depart El Centro for a trip down the Holtville branch in March 1989
Photo Date:  3/17/1989  Upload Date: 8/18/2010 8:44:43 PM
Location:  El Centro, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 2621(SW1500) SP 2500(SW1500)
Views:  970   Comments: 0
Late Afternoon on the Holtville Branch
Title:  Late Afternoon on the Holtville Branch
Description:  A pair of SP SW1500s work a short train of PFE reefers eastbound from El Centro to Holtville CA late on a March day in 1989. This is the former Holton Interurban RR; the tracks were pulled up about 1995.
Photo Date:  3/17/1989  Upload Date: 10/4/2012 7:34:37 PM
Location:  Anza, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 2547(SW1500)
Views:  234   Comments: 0
SP switchers
Title:  SP switchers
Description:  A pair of SP SW1500s idle near the El Centro depot
Photo Date:  3/17/1989  Upload Date: 1/24/2008 8:22:58 PM
Location:  El Centro, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  SP 2621(SW1500)
Views:  541   Comments: 0
Espee in the Imperial Valley
Title:  Espee in the Imperial Valley
Description:  Southern Pacific had a facility at El Centro to serve the area's bountiful agricultral traffic. GP9E 3938 sits in wait for duty along with caboose 4639 in March 1989.
Photo Date:  3/17/1989  Upload Date: 2/23/2008 11:39:54 AM
Location:  El Centro, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 3738(GP9R)
Views:  424   Comments: 0
ATSF 5067 on Cajon
Title:  ATSF 5067 on Cajon
Description:  Santa Fe SD40-2 5067 brings a pig train around a curve on Cajon Pass. 8132, 7413 and 9520 trail.
Photo Date:  4/20/1989  Upload Date: 5/14/2008 6:53:54 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5067(SD40-2)
Views:  621   Comments: 0
Five tunnel motors running uphill
Title:  Five tunnel motors running uphill
Description:  A quintet of SP tunnel motors, the first one wearing the abortive SPSF "Kodachrome" scheme, fight the laws of gravity yet again as they pull their train uphill amidst impressive rock work on Cajon Pass in April 1989.
Photo Date:  4/28/1989  Upload Date: 2/24/2008 7:24:29 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 8315(SD40T-2)
Views:  482   Comments: 0
EB Santa Fe on Cajon Pass
Title:  EB Santa Fe on Cajon Pass
Description:  C30-7 8082 leads a trio of EMDs on a Santa Fe train climbing Cajon Pass in April 1989.
Photo Date:  4/29/1989  Upload Date: 7/31/2013 7:45:10 PM
Location:  Summit, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 8082(C30-7)
Views:  141   Comments: 0
Cresting Summit
Title:  Cresting Summit
Description:  An eastbound Santa Fe freight has seven units up front and two pushing at the rear as it crests Cajon Pass.
Photo Date:  4/29/1989  Upload Date: 7/31/2013 7:44:13 PM
Location:  Summit, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 5172(SD40-2)
Views:  211   Comments: 2
UP Eastbound on Cajon Pass
Title:  UP Eastbound on Cajon Pass
Description:  Three units drag a UP freight up Cajon Pass in the Spring of 1989. 922 is followed by 9258 and 3332.
Photo Date:  4/29/1989  Upload Date: 7/31/2013 7:43:34 PM
Location:  Summit, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 9222(C40-8)
Views:  164   Comments: 1
SP System Helpers
Title:  SP System Helpers
Description:  A pair of helpers drift downgrade on Cajon Pass; SP SD45T-2R 6768 is back-to-back with SSW 9393.
Photo Date:  4/29/1989  Upload Date: 3/8/2016 8:25:05 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 6768(SD45T-2R)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
SP Power at Tule Lake
Title:  SP Power at Tule Lake
Description:  A pair of SP units idle on a siding at Tule Lake CA on the road's Modoc Line. SD45R 7444 is paired SD45T-2 6804, presumebly spotted here for the next southbound that needs help on its way to Wendel.
Photo Date:  4/3/1990  Upload Date: 12/26/2010 8:57:30 AM
Location:  Tulelake, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 7444(SD45R)
Views:  451   Comments: 2
Coming Down the Mountain
Title:  Coming Down the Mountain
Description:  A pair of helpers on an eastbound SP freight drift by the signal at Boca CA in April 1990 as they head for Reno-Sparks. Rio Grande GP40 3079 backs up Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9394. Up front three SDs are doing most of the work now.
Photo Date:  4/15/1990  Upload Date: 11/7/2010 9:20:32 AM
Location:  Boca, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 3079(GP40)
Views:  419   Comments: 2
Downgrade Along the Truckee
Title:  Downgrade Along the Truckee
Description:  Four units bring a freight downgrade along the Truckee River towards Reno in April 1990
Photo Date:  4/15/1990  Upload Date: 8/5/2009 9:37:23 PM
Location:  Boca, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 7319(SD40R)
Views:  541   Comments: 0
SP helpers
Title:  SP helpers
Description:  Two SP tunnel motor helpers drift downgrade with their train at Boca CA. Four other six-axle units arre up front. Donner Pass is behind them; Sparks NV is ahead.
Photo Date:  4/15/1990  Upload Date: 2/9/2008 7:35:25 AM
Location:  Boca, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 9344(SD45T-2) SP 6848(SD45T-2R)
Views:  461   Comments: 0
Light Power on the Modoc Line
Title:  Light Power on the Modoc Line
Description:  A pair of SP six-axle units run light southbound on the Modoc Line near Madeline CA. SD40R 7319 is acompanied by SD45R 7530 as they head for the small yard at Wendel.
Photo Date:  4/25/1990  Upload Date: 12/26/2010 8:58:43 AM
Location:  Madeline, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 7319(SD40R)
Views:  794   Comments: 2
Entering Roseville
Title:  Entering Roseville
Description:  Rio Grande 5393 leads three SP tunnel motors as they slowly advance on the yard at Roseville CA in April 1993.
Photo Date:  4/4/1993  Upload Date: 6/27/2011 10:02:21 PM
Location:  Roseville, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 5393(SD40T-2)
Views:  338   Comments: 1
Coming down Donner
Title:  Coming down Donner
Description:  Rio Grande 5393 leads three other tunnel motors and a grain train downhil through Colfax.
Photo Date:  4/4/1993  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:04:34 AM
Location:  Colfax, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DRGW 5393(SD40T-2)
Views:  504   Comments: 0
Starting up Donner
Title:  Starting up Donner
Description:  It's 9:05 in the morning at Colfax as four SP units dig in for the hill to Donner Pass. SSW GP60 9690 leads.
Photo Date:  4/5/1993  Upload Date: 2/6/2008 8:34:18 PM
Location:  Colfax, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SSW 9690(GP60)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
Waiting at Wendel
Title:  Waiting at Wendel
Description:  Three units idle at the obscure SP outpost at Wendel CA while awaiting a westbound freight to arrive, which they'll help get over the Modoc Line.
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 9/28/2010 8:16:15 PM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SSW 6872(SD45T-2M)
Views:  576   Comments: 1
SP Crossbucks
Title:  SP Crossbucks
Description:  Southern Pacific cross bucks out in the middle of nowhere in California
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 6/23/2013 10:00:06 PM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  84   Comments: 1
Ex-SP depot, Susanville CA
Title:  Ex-SP depot, Susanville CA
Description:  Susanville CA was at the end of an SP branch out of Wendel; by the time this shot was made the line was being operated by the Quincy RR.
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 10:15:25 PM
Location:  Susanville, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  180   Comments: 0
Swapping Power at Wendel
Title:  Swapping Power at Wendel
Description:  Two SP trains swap power at Wendel CA in April 1993. One train will head east to Ogden while the other will run north up the Modoc Line to Klamath Falls.
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 3/19/2009 10:11:23 PM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 8014(B39-8E)
Views:  441   Comments: 0
EB SP Modoc line freight
Title:  EB SP Modoc line freight
Description:  An eastbound SP freight drops downgrade on the Modoc line; crew change at Wendel is about five miles ahead
Photo Date:  4/7/1993  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:03:50 AM
Location:  Wendel, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  232   Comments: 0


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