Huskerherb's Color RR Images

SP Tr.#148 departs San Francisco for San Jose with a string of vintage Harriman coaches in tow

Here's a closeup of assorted classic Southern Pacific power basking in the afternoon sun at the Townsend and 7th Street Diesel Facility in downtown San Francisco in 1981

Recently restored UP "Challenger" #3985 performs a photo runby at Point of the Mountain on the way to Provo, UT

Amtrak F40PH #223 leads eastbound Train #36, the Desert Wind, over Santa Fe's First District trackage on the approach to Cajon Pass Summit in 1983

Santa Fe's eastbound tonnage, lead by C30-7 #8056, makes its way around Southern Pacific's Tehachapi Loop in Tehachapi Pass in 1984

Lead SP SD40T-2 #8236 works the main with the eastbound "Oil Cans" at Woodford in Tehachapi Pass in 1984. Between the headend power and the helpers, it was quite a symphony of pure SP!

Eastbound Santa Fe freight wraps itself around Tehachapi Loop

"Olympic" SP SD40R #7347 heads east through the cut in Santa Susana Pass in Chatsworth to Los Angeles to take part in the festivities at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in 1984

Cab ride from Los Angeles to San Bernardino in GP35u #2905 which was leading a nine unit cabhop via the 2nd District in 1984. This is an image of the Pasadena depot while passing through town

Eastbound on Santa Fe's 2nd District at Mission Tower in Los Angeles, GP35u #2905 leads a cabhop of 8-9 locomotives up the west bank of the Los Angeles River in 1984

Amtrak Train #3, the westbound Southwest Limited, arrives at Broadway on Santa Fe's 2nd District while the #2905 waits for the lineup to proceed east with its caphop in 1984

SP SD45 #7481 west leads its train through the classic backdrop of the Chatsworth hills of Santa Susana Pass on the coastline route in 1984

Southern Pacific "Daylight" #4449 leads the World's Fair Daylight train into LAUPT

Southern Pacific GS-4 "Daylight" #4449 is spotted on LAUPT's Track #5 after a busy day's run to Los Angeles pulling the World's Fair Daylight excursion train on May 12, 1984

Southern Pacific GS-4 "Daylight" #4449 is spotted on LAUPT's Track #5 after a busy day's run to Los Angeles pulling the World's Fair Daylight excursion train on May 12, 1984

After a dramatic struggle to conquer the 2.4% eastbound grade over Vincent Summit on the Mojave Sub's Saugus Line, #4449 and the World's Fair Daylight continue the journey to Los Angeles' LAUPT on May 12, 1984

Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 departs LAUPT pulling the World's Fair Daylight under Signal Bridge 2 for the run east to New Orleans in May 1984

Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 departs LAUPT pulling the World's Fair Daylight under Signal Bridge 2 for the run east to New Orleans in May 1984

The return trip to Portland, OR continues with the departure from LAUPT of SP #4449 and the World's Fair Daylight, running as Tr.#99, along the east bank of the Los Angeles River in 1984

The World's Fair Daylight departs Santa Barbara with Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 in charge of the westbound special. March 21, 1937 marked the inaugural run of the westbound Coast Daylight, Train #99. June 19, 1984 marked the final "unofficial" run of Train #99

The World's Fair Daylight heads westbound for San Luis Obisbo as it passes through Callender on the SP Coastline running as #99 in June 1984

Bringing up the markers in Southern Pacific style, the neon glow of "Daylight" on the Appekunny Mountain observation car of the World's Fair Daylight is seen as the special races westbound through the open pastures at Callender on the SP Coastline in 1984

The World's Fair Daylight heads westbound for San Luis Obisbo as it passes through Callender on the SP Coastline running as #99

On a clear crisp day in Cajon Pass, Santa Fe SD45 #5350 leads its TOFC train westbound down the #2 Main through Verdemont on Santa Fe's First District in 1984

Santa Fe SD40-2 #5129 heads up this eastbound freight passing through Devore on the ATSF First District in 1984

The Desert Wind, eastbound Train #36, kicks up fresh ballast dust as it heads through Pine Lodge on Santa Fe's First District in Cajon Pass in 1984

Westbound GP35 #3324 leads this mixed freight train through Devore in Cajon Pass on the First District in 1984

Union Pacific Centennials #6935/#6927 pull an eastbound freight through Devore on Santa Fe's 1st District mainline in 1984

In classic SP style, SD40T-2 #8306 leads a westbound freight drag up the Palmdale Colton Cutoff between Dike and Canyon in Cajon Pass in 1984

Westbound Southern Pacific tonnage makes its way up the main behind classic SP power towards the west end of Canyon on the Palmdale Colton Cutoff in Cajon Pass in 1984

Eastbound Union Pacific SD40-2 #3750 leads UP SD40 #3108 and SP SD45 #7497 up Main #1 through Pine Lodge in Cajon Pass in 1984

Led by classic blue and yellow warbonnet diesels, an eastbound Santa Fe TOFC freight approaches Sullivan's Curve in Cajon Pass in 1985

Santa Fe Cowl SDF45 #5961 east leads its train through Woodford over Southern Pacific rails towards Tehachapi Loop in 1986. It was a challenge to shoot solid B/Y consists with the ATSF/SP merger still pending

Heading for Southern California, SP "Daylight" #4449 will be filmed for the movie "Tough Guys".

Southern Pacific GS-4 "Daylight", running as X4449, eases eastbound at Surf along the California coastline to Los Angeles to take part in filming sequences for the movie "Tough Guys" in 1986

Former SP "Daylight" #4449 dashes eastbound at Gaviota along the California Coastline to Los Angeles to take part in filming sequences for the movie "Tough Guys" in 1986

Former Santa Fe, then Amtrak, Pasadena passenger depot lights up the night!

Eastbound Kodachrome Southern Pacific SD45R (SD45-2) #7514 takes the lead down the Palmdale Colton Cutoff in the Blue Cut area of Cajon Pass in 1986

Eastbound Santa Fe blue and yellow warbonnets, lead by SD40-2 #5185, grind upgrade with loaded autoracks through Blue Cut in Cajon Pass in 1986

Santa Fe knew how to bring up the rear of a westbound intermodal freight passing through Cajon Summit in 1986

ATSF SD45-2 #5639 leads this eastbound COFC/TOFC train through Cajon Summit on the South Main in 1986

Union Pacific SD40-2 #3702 leads eastbound APL double stacks over ATSF trackage west of Cajon Summit in Cajon Pass in 1986

An eastbound Santa Fe freight gets an assist from SD40-2 #5155 as it passes through Cajon Station while the headend is already passing through Sullivan's Curve in 1987

Southern Pacific SD40T-2 #8336 takes the point position on this eastbound Santa Fe freight past the Summit crossovers in 1987

Eastbound Santa Fe SD45 "Kodachrome" #5351 leads a manifest freight while braving the winter wonderland through Cajon Station on the North Main on Cajon's 1st Subdivision on February 25, 1987

On the anniversary of the inaugural run of SP's Coast Daylight 50 years earlier!

On a cold Christmas Eve at Cajon Summit( Santa Fe SD40-2 #5206 leads a westbound freight along the South Main before descending Cajon Pass on December 24, 1987

Santa Fe caboose #999286 brings up the markers on a westbound freight passing through Cajon Summit during a time when you actually enjoyed waiting for the end of a freight train. The date was Christmas Eve 1987

Christmas Eve 1987 finds a Santa Fe eastbound mixed freight pulling through a snowy Cajon Summit on the North Main of the 1st Subdivision led by EMD GP35u #2804

$Christmas Eve 1987 finds a Santa Fe TOFC westbound reight pulling through Cajon Summit on the South Main of the 1st Subdivision led by GE C30-7 #8053