Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> Keith Ode Wrote:
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> > - SP West Side line through the Willamette
> > Valley.
> >
> > - Santa Fe and SP's multiple secondary through
> > routes between Stockton and Bakersfield. The
> > lines I'm thinking of were severed many decades
> > ago and became the SJVR routes of today.
> >
> > - SP's former South Pacific Coast route over
> the
> > Santa Cruz Mountains.
> >
> > - The SP's Santa Rosa branch. I know the NWP
> and
> > SP we're operated separately, but the NWP and
> SP
> > both had routes between Schellville and Santa
> > Rosa.
>
> Can't remember the exact year, think it was 1996.
> The hot LA to Portland pig (formerly the LABRT,)
> was detoured at Albany and up the Westside Branch.
> Was quite a sight. Don't think they ever exceeded
> 30mph. The detour was very well photographed.
> There was quite a crowd following it. This was due
> to flooding around Aurora from the Pudding River,
> naybe the most aptly named river on the planet.


That must have been one hell of a chase. Do you know of any links to photos? What was the power?