There was nice sun on the western face of Tunnel 28 in the Santa Susana Pass Sunday afteroon and I saw three trains in give or take half an hour that I thought I would share with the group. In reverse order, Union Pacific AMIMLR-09 brings empty autoracks north toward Milpitas.
Thanks for the flashback Charles, I use to hang out at that very spot when I lived in Van Nuys (91-96). Nice pictures. If I remember right you live in Santa Monica, do you have any pics of the line in the Olympic / 26th st area, or anywhere else in SM for that matter?
That’s correct, but I have no pictures of any trains on the Santa Monica Branch. They usually came this far west at night (they ran by USC in the early morning when I was there, but I was a knucklehead at that age and never shot them). As to the trains this far west, last one I saw was about 1987 or 1988, crossing Venice Blvd. I thought I should go home and get a camera, but I was a lazy sloth and didn’t bother. Never saw one again.
Too bad, I worked at Century Cable from 91 to 96 on Nebraska and always wondered about those tracks and where they once went and what customers there were. But I know what you mean about night freights (hard to catch) as well as not taking those pictures you should have.