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Re: SP trainmen 1974- Not trainmen in this photo, those are switchmen.....
Author: BOB2
Date: 07-26-2023 - 07:50

There are no trainmen shown in this photo... Those are switchmen...

Don't recognize anyone... And/but it could even be me in the cab...?

It's a switching job likely coming around the wye and across Mission and the AT&SF from the lower end of the Bull Ring/Links headed toward the Shops, or maybe down the UP to J yard, the UP, or the LA Jct...? The interchange jobs usually had two SD-7's, and it doesn't look like Shops traffic, so my guess would be a daylight hauler to the J yard down at 25th and Alameda, next to PE Butte Street (now where the Alameda Corridor runs).

Back then, a lot of switching traffic from Taylor also went down the "old" mainline through the Bull Ring/Links via LAUPT Mission Tower, to avoid inbound and outbound mainline/road train congestion on the East Bank, between Pasadena Jct. and Dayton Tower.

Nice shot, and great memories of the many times I've been there....

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  SP trainmen 1974 photo post 07-25-2023 - 23:37
  Re: SP trainmen 1974 J 07-26-2023 - 05:56
  Re: SP trainmen 1974- Not trainmen in this photo, those are switchmen..... BOB2 07-26-2023 - 07:50
  Re: SP trainmen 1974 Bob the Train Guy 07-26-2023 - 11:28
  Re: SP trainmen 1974 George Andrews 07-26-2023 - 16:47
  Re: SP trainmen 1974 USMC1401 07-27-2023 - 13:52
  Re: SP trainmen 1974 Really? 07-31-2023 - 20:03
  Re: SP trainmen 1974 El Trolio 07-31-2023 - 22:17


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