Altamont Press Discussion Board

12-17-2018 - 23:16

Tony Johnson

121. Re: They Shall Not Grow Old (title correction)

If documentaries on WWI interest you there is an excellent two DVD set titled "The Last Voices of WWI". It is a British multi-part documentary with interviews of survivors who were on the front lines,
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12-15-2018 - 22:26

Tony Johnson

122. Re: Big Creek & Telocaset

Good reading on the history of this company. didn't know anything about it until now.
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12-14-2018 - 21:20

Tony Johnson

123. Re: New Northern California Railroad

There will always remain the problem of being a day or two slower that if containers used other deep water ports with more direct links to the nation's rail system. San Francisco couldn't overcome the
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12-14-2018 - 21:13

Tony Johnson

124. Re: Where-iz-it?

Nudge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like the horseshoe job, down at Richardson > Bay, on the way to Sausalito.(or backing up to go > to Detour) That would
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12-14-2018 - 07:49

Tony Johnson

125. Re: John Kirchner Photo?

Thank you for the confirmation. During the summer my parents, relatives and I would drive from San Francisco to a picnic spot they discovered along Lagunitas Creek between Lagunitas and Taylor State P
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12-13-2018 - 22:26

OPRRMS

126. Re: Where-iz-it?

Tony Johnson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Although SP1000 was used on the Tiburon end of the > NWP, The elevated structure in the background > looks more like H
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12-13-2018 - 22:17

Tony Johnson

127. Re: Where-iz-it?

Although SP1000 was used on the Tiburon end of the NWP, The elevated structure in the background looks more like Highway 101 that goes over Richardson Bay. This would place the 1000 on the Sausalito B
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12-06-2018 - 17:06

Tony Johnson

128. Re: Going to Alcatraz by train

Rare train mileage for Capone and the boys.
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11-26-2018 - 22:21

Tony Johnson

129. Re: Lead Down 105th Ave to Chevrolet Plant in Oakland Question

It happened under SP. I can't give you a date, but around 1982 SP obtained trackage rights over the former WP to 105th Avenue. I remember the changed looked somewhat new on my first visit in early 198
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11-24-2018 - 22:11

Tony Johnson

130. Re: This is what Kaliforniastan in 30 years

After 30 years I believe California will make this place look good.
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11-16-2018 - 18:36

Tony Johnson

131. Re: Another Hollywood Runaway Train

I agree. It was on the Minarets & Western.
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11-15-2018 - 21:44

Tony Johnson

132. Re: Murder in the Private Car

I watched it for the first time. Some of the earlier railroad scenes showed Santa Fe equipment and lettering. The runaway private car scene was shot mostly between Grass Lake and the Sacramento River
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11-05-2018 - 08:31

Hot Water

133. Re: SP 4449 and the SP coast line

Tony Johnson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The cost of liability insurance is enough to stop > a plan. And there you have the answer in a nutshell! Besides, th
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11-05-2018 - 08:25

Tony Johnson

134. Re: SP 4449 and the SP coast line

The cost of liability insurance is enough to stop a plan.
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11-05-2018 - 08:23

Tony Johnson

135. Re: Thanks, Jim Evans !

San Mateo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jim Evans Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Very northern San Mateo. I took those.
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10-12-2018 - 14:11

Tony Johnson

136. Re: SP Alco on the Visalia Electric

OPRRMS Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > L Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > Is there an SP Alco S6 still in existence?
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10-12-2018 - 10:36

OPRRMS

137. Re: SP Alco on the Visalia Electric

L Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Is there an SP Alco S6 still in existence? Yup, quite a few. In California alone there are at least five: one at the Pacif
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09-27-2018 - 08:23

Tony Johnson

138. Re: Steam Engine #4 status

HUTCH 7.62 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So where do they plan on running this thing? > Almost all of the state belt trackage is gone with > the redevelopment of
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08-18-2018 - 19:25

Tony Johnson

139. Re: Hollister CA wants its px trains too

At least they won't have to dig tunnels on the Hollister Branch. Wait a minute, with government money they might try to put the whole line underground.
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08-10-2018 - 15:50

Tony Johnson

140. Re: Hutches Favorite Locomotives and Mouse's favorite guage

What! You've never seen coal burning diesels before?
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07-24-2018 - 18:15

Tony Johnson

141. Re: Nightmare of a former slide shooter.

Ahhh, the joys of film to a railfan. 1. The consist of the decade will appear after you shoot your last frame. 2. You find a great photo location but you're nearly out of film... and the closest f
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07-18-2018 - 18:47

Tony Johnson

142. Re: New Pink "One" Containers

I remember a official at Kaiser's reply to the question of why they painted their equipment pink. If someone steals one of our cement mixers it will stand out and make it easier for the police to f
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07-16-2018 - 13:08

WAF

143. Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines

Tony Johnson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a far cry from when I worked at Bethlehem > Steel's SSF plant in 1966-1967. Southern Pacific > FM switchers regul
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07-16-2018 - 08:21

Tony Johnson

144. Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines

It's a far cry from when I worked at Bethlehem Steel's SSF plant in 1966-1967. Southern Pacific FM switchers regularly came inside the plant. Next door Edwards Wire & Rope got service. The last stock
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07-14-2018 - 22:39

Tony Johnson

145. Re: Remainning Peninsula shippers? SP/UP/Shortlines

I may have missed it, but I believe the aggregate company just south of the SSF station till gets carloads. They have a Trackmobile there.
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07-07-2018 - 20:28

Tony Johnson

146. Re: Del Monte Memories

Carol L Voss Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Grammar Police Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I have to compliment Carol for
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06-05-2018 - 20:45

Tony Johnson

147. Re: UP reroutes on the Siskiyou line

HUTCH 7.62 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > OPRRMS Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > http://mailtribune.com/news/top-stori
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06-05-2018 - 20:32

Tony Johnson

148. Re: The Fall of Trains Magazine

There are a lot of good explanations of personal opinions on why TRAINS magazine has fallen in stature. I first subscribed in April, 1960 and am still a subscriber. I have collected every TRAINS issue
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06-04-2018 - 08:03

Tony Johnson

149. Re: MEGO—my eyes glaze over

What? You mean they also didn't show SP4449 under pantograph on a cog railway!
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05-30-2018 - 17:37

Carol L Voss

150. Re: "Ship it on the Frisco"

Tony Johnson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a native San Franciscan we never called San > Francisco, "Frisco". Most of the time we called it > "The City". It w
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