Keith Ode Wrote:
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> 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?

My slides of it are not scanned. If memory serves there were speed lettered GP60s in the consist, and maybe some six-axle power. I will email a friend and see if he can locate his photos.