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Re: Can someone over 50 tell me what this is
Author: WAF
Date: 10-17-2015 - 12:15
Ted Benson Wrote:
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> Ooops…
>
> After 40 years of daily photo-journalism, one of
> the basics of reported completely escaped me in
> the previous post: the all-important "when" of the
> story.
>
> I went to work for my father at the Ford
> dealership in the fall of 1962. The Saturday job
> lasted throughout my high school years, plus a
> significant portion of two successive years
> attending Modesto Junior College. My Ford service
> concluded in the summer of 1968, not quite three
> years before Dad retired (he went to work for
> Gordon Wight in 1946 and retired on the Friday
> before Amtrak in April 1971.)
>
> Most Saturdays during the mid-Sixties saw 12-14
> Espee freights a day (including two sections of
> the Starpacer, locals and the Modesto switcher),
> along with both Daylights. The variety of motive
> power, especially during the heyday of the
> diesel-hydraulics, was unsurpassed. "Three KM"
> days were common; during one nine-hour period,
> five separate KMs passed. SP's Alco DH-640s were
> regular visitors as well. Needless to say, it was
> a thrill seeing all three Alcohaulics roll through
> (along with a dynamometer car) shortly after their
> arrival on the railroad.
>
> If I'd only known then what I know now!
>
> TB
Good memory on the late 60s SP, Ted. 12-1 trains sounds right, with the Pigs, F Blocks afternoon parade of MUG trains to Oregon, Beets moving to factories, empties back to the loaders and a assortment of lumber drags. Last of the Fs, end of the Centurys, KMs and DH643 experiments. The beginning of the second generation EMD SD40/45s
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> Ooops…
>
> After 40 years of daily photo-journalism, one of
> the basics of reported completely escaped me in
> the previous post: the all-important "when" of the
> story.
>
> I went to work for my father at the Ford
> dealership in the fall of 1962. The Saturday job
> lasted throughout my high school years, plus a
> significant portion of two successive years
> attending Modesto Junior College. My Ford service
> concluded in the summer of 1968, not quite three
> years before Dad retired (he went to work for
> Gordon Wight in 1946 and retired on the Friday
> before Amtrak in April 1971.)
>
> Most Saturdays during the mid-Sixties saw 12-14
> Espee freights a day (including two sections of
> the Starpacer, locals and the Modesto switcher),
> along with both Daylights. The variety of motive
> power, especially during the heyday of the
> diesel-hydraulics, was unsurpassed. "Three KM"
> days were common; during one nine-hour period,
> five separate KMs passed. SP's Alco DH-640s were
> regular visitors as well. Needless to say, it was
> a thrill seeing all three Alcohaulics roll through
> (along with a dynamometer car) shortly after their
> arrival on the railroad.
>
> If I'd only known then what I know now!
>
> TB
Good memory on the late 60s SP, Ted. 12-1 trains sounds right, with the Pigs, F Blocks afternoon parade of MUG trains to Oregon, Beets moving to factories, empties back to the loaders and a assortment of lumber drags. Last of the Fs, end of the Centurys, KMs and DH643 experiments. The beginning of the second generation EMD SD40/45s
