Sience nobody got this yet and I am real busy today, I’ll let this ride.
It should be an easy one.
Hmmmm…Clues: UP mainline crossing ATSF mainline…small town/rural setting…Hmmmmm…
Looks can be deceiving, It’s definately not rural.
UP main line is single track, unlike Colton. And the fog. Oh, the fog. I’ll guess Stockton, CA.
You got it Clemente. It’s Stockton tower, when the tower was still there. All the shots were taken from basicly the same spot. The first is a SF train headded west crossing the ex WP main. The second shot is a UP on now removed ex WP track headded north. The third is a northbound SP just south of the SP SF diamonds. One of the clues here was the SD70M. SP kept the SD70Ms captive on the Portland-LA/West Colton route.
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Kinda reminds me of the area around the Chocolate Mountains down near Bythe…
similar terrain but it’s not Blythe
Marana or somewhere between Picacho and Tucson.
Nope
I can not remember the name of the place or its exact location. I have seen a photo quite similar to this from a story in TRAINS about an ATSF Trainmaster in northern Arizona/New Mexico. Place was uphill out of town in each direction.[banghead]
Even if I have id the place, that discription can’t be good enough. [:(]
Beverly Jct it is not.[}:)]
OT- Eric, is that MR bridge at Beverly now a highway bridge?
Needles, CA
Then again, it might be near Quartszite, AZ.
dragoons
Not that I know of, but then, I haven’t been down into Sentinal Gap for quite a long time. All of the highways in the area are on the east side of the river and the only bridge close is the I-90 bridge at Vantage.
Still no winners.
Salt Lake?
not Salt Lake
I don’t know where it is, but the lead Santa Fe engine in the first photo is a GP60, right?