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Southern Pacific (SP) SD7 2716 was sporting improvised extended sunshades to protect from the early summer heat in Roseville, CA on Sunday, June 28, 1973. It was doubling over an eastbound train that was led by UP power.
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SP 2716 was an EMD SD7, SP Class ES615-3. Reportedly: it was built as SP 5309, SP Class DF-117, in 1953, construction number 18381, the first of it's class, and was built with 62:15 gearing, steam generators and signal lights at each end. Renumbered to 2716 in the 1965 renumbering, it was renumbered again to 1416 in 1973. SP 1416 was upgraded in 1979 to SP Class ES615R-1 1511. SP 1511 was retired and sold in 1995.

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SP SD7 2716 is working the yard in Roseville, CA in June, 1973.

Red and green signal lights reflect off the stainless steel double deck commuter cars at night.

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Gave Up Trying To Shoot The Tehachapi Loop - So Here's The Tehachapi Twist

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This is a black and white photo in landscape format of a freight train passing along a meandering length of track on the rim of a steep hillside. Tehachapi, California (2017).

The freight train enters the photo from the lower left corner, is viewed from slightly above and curves around the bottom before continuing its winding turn to the left. There are two parallel sets of tracks both reflecting the low morning sun from their smooth and shiny metal surface. The train is on the right set of tracks, perhaps because the US drives on the right ? At the front of the train are five diesel locomotives, their exhaust smoke lit faintly from the sunlight. Behind are three dark covered freight wagons followed by four black tank wagons. That is all that is in view, the total length may be as long as 6000 m (20,000 ft), with a few more locomotives thrown in for good measure. The tracks run along a tier built into the side of a hill, with the terrain falling away from the right to the left. There are scattered trees and sparse vegetation to either side of the tracks which curve around to the left before making an 'S' bend before continuing the curve to the left and out of view.

The front of the train has circled through the Tehachapi Loop and is winding its way through the Tehachapi Pass towards Mojave and then Los Angeles.

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New Video: MODEL RAILWAVES: The Queen Mary at Rawhitiroa Road - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KVlrZ_uZXU

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Southern Pacific (SP) SW1500 2630 led a motley assortment of SP motive power including GP9E 3384, two SD45T-2’s and two Alco S6’s at Newhall Yard in Santa Clara, California. According to Wesley Fox this is the OASJY, on Monday, February 10, 1975.
SP 2630 was an SW1500, SP Class ES415-5. Reportedly: it was built in 1972, serial 4608-40. Retired in 1994. Sold to Omni-Trax became CTI Bank Leasing CEFX 2630.

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Southern Pacific SW1500 leads a power set of mixed road and switch engines on a road freight in Santa Clara, CA in 1972.

Train at Weed
Spokane Portland and Seattle (SPS) 869 leading my train passing the depot at "Weed" on the California Central Model Railroad Club (CCMRC) in the historic Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA, on Saturday, January 10, 2026. My SPS 869 is a Rapido HO scale model.
The real SPS 869 was an ALCo FA-2. It was built in 1950, builder's number 78378. It became BN 4126 before it was retired.

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My HO train passing the depot at "Weed" on the California Central Model Railroad Club in Santa Clara, CA.

Train at Shasta
Spokane Portland and Seattle (SPS) 869 leading my train at "Shasta" on the California Central Model Railroad Club (CCMRC) in the historic Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA, on Saturday, January 10, 2026. My SPS 869 is a Rapido HO scale model, BN 4070 is a Bowser model.
The real SPS 869 was an ALCo FA-2. It was built in 1950, builder's number 78378. It became BN 4126 before it was retired.

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My HO train at "Shasta" on the California Central Model Railroad Club in Santa Clara, CA.

Train on the High Bridge
Spokane Portland and Seattle (SPS) 869 leading my train across the high bridge on the California Central Model Railroad Club (CCMRC) in the historic Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA, on Saturday, January 10, 2026. My SPS 869 is a Rapido HO scale model, BN 7070 is a Bowser model.
The real SPS 869 was an ALCo FA-2. It was built in 1950, builder's number 78378. It became BN 4126 before it was retired.

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My HO train on the "high bridge" at the California Central Model Railroad Club in Santa Clara, CA.

The trams that built Wellington - https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/01/29/the-trams-that-built-wellington/

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Off the rails: How freight railroads built and then abandoned the Boston waterfront

https://ericbender.co/history-of-the-harbor/

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Colorful illustration from an imaginary height of Boston inner harbor in 1903, emphasizing the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad's freight terminals, at the edge of what would become the Seaport.

New Video: MODEL RAILWAVES: Steam Takes Over at Rawhitiroa Road - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4KTiabSnI

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California Street

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This is a black and white street photo in portrait format of a stationary San Francisco cable car (2012).

The camera is directed along a straight and wide city street. Below the centre of the image is an iconic San Francisco cable car, stationary, in the middle of the street and at the start of the line. The cable car car is viewed from the front (or perhaps the rear?) (When it gets to the end of the line the driver gets out of the front goes to the rear and doubles back in reverse, though on a parallel track). The cable car is all wood above the metal chassis. On the lower part of the front/back are the words - 'Van Ness Ave California & Market Streets'. Above, are three rectangular windows with a slightly arched roof above. It's a month before Christmas and there is tinsel around the edge of the roof. On either side of the cable car is the usual assortment of city traffic. On either side of the street are the bottom few floors of various high-rise buildings. In the distance, about half a km, the street climbs steeply with the summit being just short of the top of the image, a little strip of white sky is visible in that gap. Where the road climbs so steeply, the two parallel sets of tracks can be seen clearly in the middle of the street.

The location: California Street at the junction with Market Street, looking west, in San Francisco's Business district.

What to Expect for a Cold NYC Commute: Trains, Buses and Rail

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/weather/nyc-winter-storm-transit-trains-buses.html

An MTA bus passing Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn on Sunday.

UP EMD/MK/Sulzer SD45M
This was shot at Summit, CA, on Cajon Pass, on a trip in the early 80's (likely 1982) to Eagle Mountain. It is a pure luck shot of a UP Sulzer on the point of a train at Summit. The man getting off is a (surprise) mechanic.
UP 60 was an EMD SD45, UP Designation EMD/Morrison Knudsen SD45M. Reportedly, it was built in 1968 by EMD as UP 3634 an SD45, builders number 33443, from UP series 3600-3649. It was renumbered UP 34 in 1978. It was rebuilt in 1980, equipped with a Sulzer 16ASV25R-30 engine and 62:15 gear ratio. Union Pacific called these units SD45Ms. Morrison Knudsen used TE83-6S. It was retired in 1983.

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The old way is nice we don't need that level of connected tech literally in every seat we can still live as people who help people that's what humanity is

Yes to new infrastructure and equipment that's simple time-tested and functions well. Advocacy for that appreciated 😊

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At 7:41 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, then new BNSF 6581, 6583, 5136, 4009, 5604 and 5035 led a southbound manifest out of Caliente, CA. They were approaching Tunnel 1 in the Tehachapi mountains.
BNSF 6581 is a GE ES44C4. Reportedly: it was built in 2013, serial number 61494.

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At 8:38 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Barstow, CA, BNSF 5261 was leading a 4+0 (5261, 4342, 4320, 5430) eastbound intermodal train onto the Needles Subdivision. Behind it a westbound 5+0 (BNSF 6836, 4014, NS 2583, 724wb, 960) manifest was heading in the other direction.
BNSF 5261 is a GE C44-9W. Reportedly: it was built in 2002 serial number 53755.

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At 8:45 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Barstow, CA, near where East Tower once was, an eastbound BNSF Auto Racks (6778, 7501) started it's journey onto the Needles Subdivision.
BNSF 6778 is a GE ES44C4. Reportedly: it was built in 2011 builder's number 60448.
This photo was shot with my Nikon F100 and my second to the last roll of Fuji Astia film.

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