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1968: "Doggone it! Those darn Train Masters are always in the way!
2003: "Doggone it! I wish that SP had saved one!" |
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| U33C's 8663 and 8609 idle at the west end. Although they weren't generally held in high favor on SP, I liked 'em and other six motor GE's, if only because they featured a very civilized 'facility' in which you could contemplate railroading at speed without being covered with sand (GP/SD-9's), nor squatting-down at grade crossing level in the low-nose (just about everything else). Said item was located behind a door on the backhead. Fall 1970. id1845 |  |
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An eastbound plug is coasting by the Roundhouse's back side on this dreary January 1969 day. id763 | |||
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| The pits in the garden. The 3600 is coupled to a C-628 on this date in early 1969. id793 | ||||
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| By the spring of 1969, it was readily apparent that the EMD F-7's days were numbered. Thus, when I showed-up one weekend afternoon, I was delighted to find ex TNO passenger unit # 355. Unfortunately, the easy-going roundhouse foreman of the early sixties had by now been replaced by a guy who towed the company line regarding unauthorized photographers. This was as close as I dared to go, given that the line of Trainmasters blocked a quick escape route. I would have liked to snapshot Alco RS-32 # 4002 over there on the far left, as well.
Incidentally, the 355 was the last SP passenger F-7A (though by this picture's time, it was pretty-well relegated to freight), and the last ex TNO cab unit, period, when retired in October, 1972. Anyway, there just just had to be another way to get a shot of the 355. So I trudged around to the mainline side of Train Master Row, and here's what I came-up with: click here |
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