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Re: Feather River Thursday, 1987
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýMike, ? Are any of the old WP Broncos still and service.? If not, what does UP use now?? Do those Broncos work out of the crew districts? ? ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Tisdale via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 5:01 PM To: Alwyn Smith <alwyn.smith@...>; Assen Stoyanov <assenstoyanov@...>; Barry <fossilbarry@...>; Calrailfans <[email protected]>; Chris Bates <chrisbates31@...>; Dave Hodson <dave.hodson21@...>; Dieter Hochhaus <lehgudi.zwei@...>; Graham Bentley <graham.bentley@...>; Grahame McDonald <grahame_robert_mcdon@...>; Jock Adams <aajadams@...>; KennethRoberts <kenbobby1234@...>; Roderick Moore <engineman70c@...>; Simon Talbot <s.j.n.talbot@...>; Tony Green <lizandtony1986@...>; Vic Drake <drake.victor.g@...>; johnsagar@...; [email protected]; RICHARD GREENWOOD <steam.richard@...> Subject: Re: [ObservationCar] Feather River Thursday, 1987 ? Thank you, Richard. ? And, yes, there are many rockslides in the canyon, both on the railroad and highway side.? The highway was recently closed by a side for a couple of months, but it has reopened. ? In bad weather, trains are preceded by hi rail vehicles to warn of track problems.? These were originally Ford Broncos (as the factory that made Broncos was served by WP) and the radio call signs of them are still "Bronco xxxx".? Now that Ford is making Broncos again, maybe UP will get some. ? Mike Tisdale ? On Thursday, January 20, 2022, 03:38:58 PM PST, RICHARD GREENWOOD <steam.richard@...> wrote: ? ? Greetings ? Fantastic shot ? I bet all the pw men (gandy dancers) always wear their hard hats. ? RSG ?
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Re: Feather River Thursday, 1987
Thank you, Richard. And, yes, there are many rockslides in the canyon, both on the railroad and highway side.? The highway was recently closed by a side for a couple of months, but it has reopened. In bad weather, trains are preceded by hi rail vehicles to warn of track problems.? These were originally Ford Broncos (as the factory that made Broncos was served by WP) and the radio call signs of them are still "Bronco xxxx".? Now that Ford is making Broncos again, maybe UP will get some. Mike Tisdale
On Thursday, January 20, 2022, 03:38:58 PM PST, RICHARD GREENWOOD <steam.richard@...> wrote:
Greetings Fantastic shot I bet all the pw men (gandy dancers) always wear their hard hats. RSG
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Haggin Tuesday, 2009
January 18, 2009? At Haggin, we see UP 4978 leading a westbound manifest as it crosses over the ex-WP Sacramento Sub. In the distance, through the underpass, the Sac Sub's American River bridge can be seen. The units are EMD SD70Ms. 2022: Today this has changed. The C Street grade crossing is closed and fenced off, so you'd need to walk in from D Street along the Sacramento Sub to stand here. Both railroads here are Oakland, California to Utah routes. The train is on the original Central Pacific transcontinental line built in the 1860s. It is headed due west. I'm standing next to the Western Pacific line, which runs north-south between Oroville and Stockton. At Oroville, it turns east to the Feather River Canyon. The CP line is shorter, but the grades over Donner Pass are steeper than the WP line through the canyon. On the left, the Sacramento Northern Bikeway uses the old SN interurban bridge, just downstream of the WP bridge, to cross the American River and connect with the bike trail on the north side of the river. See less ¡ª in Sacramento, California. Mike Tisdale |
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Fw: 1952 City of San Francisco Facebook Thread
A friend sent these photos of the City of San Francisco stuck in the snow at Yuba Pass, California 70 years ago.? The train hit a snowslide and stopped and the efforts to rescue the train turned into a tragicomedy of errors.? ?? Here is the story.?? I've seen many black and white photos of the train and the rescue, but these are the first color shots I've seen. 20 years ago, several of us went to Yuba Pass for a day of train watched on the 50th anniversary of the train getting stuck.? It was sunny and traffic was moving fine.? The girls had fun playing in the snow.?? Mike Tisdale -------- Original message -------- From: Paul Lanyi Jr <Cdogh@...> Date: 1/15/22 8:30 AM (GMT-08:00) I noticed Stan and Roger had already acknowledged that post this morning.
But I want to pass along a heads-up to those who perhaps haven't. I may only link to Facebook about once a week now, and miss a lot of good posts. These scans were posted to Steve Passmore's thread. I used to attend some of his slide shows 15+ years ago. These are slides he received and scanned from a person who actually participated in the recovery efforts. These 'color images' surprised most everyone commenting, as they were the first in color they had seen. City of San Francisco snowed in ?Sunday January 13, 1952 |
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Butterfield Thursday, early 1990s
Early 90s, Butterfield light rail station, Sacramento, California, Siemens LRV and SP GP9s on the Folsom Turn. When Sacramento's light rail system was first built, Butterfield was the east end of what is now called the Gold Line. The light rail train is at the end of the line as SP's Folsom Turn comes by. In the 30 years or so since I took this. the light rail line has been extended to Folsom and the GP9s were replaced with newer Geeps, GP15-1, GP38-2, GP40-2 and/or GP60 in various combinations and, now, SD70s and SD59MXes, and today is a UP operation. Mike Tisdale |
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Re: Stockton Tuesday, 2014
Not a play on words or accents, but when Grahame McDonald, Phil Kilburn and I were returning from India and Sri Lanka in February 1980, we caught the 1550 or 1650 Kings Cross? to Leeds HST.? The train was almost as packed as some of the trains we'd ridden in India and Sri Lanka (we got a cab ride on the Kandy-Colombo train as the driver took pity on us being wedged into the coach...people had to take turns breathing, with half the car breathing in as the other half breathed out, it was that crowded) and the guard suggested before leaving that maybe some people might want to catch the following train before we left.?? We pulled out of Kings Cross with people standing wedged in everywhere and headed to our first stop at Peterborough or wherever.?? When the guard made his announcement for the first stop, he ended it with, "....and for those of you standing, ready, steady, go!" The train erupted in laughter. Mike Tisdale Photos, the crowd on the platform at Kandy, Sri Lanka, awaiting the train to Colombo and the train arriving.?
On Thursday, January 13, 2022, 05:52:44 AM PST, Dave Hodson <dave.hodson21@...> wrote:
And of course there is the old favourite: ? ¡°We have a latest score from Scotland and so far its Forfar four and East Fife five¡± ? Not as good as the train one though which I hadn¡¯t heard before ? Dave Hodson 0419 038 736 ? Click on here to listen live:??? (Send me a text whilst listening if you would like a shout-out) ? From: Grahame McDonald [mailto:grahame_robert_mcdon@...]
Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2022 8:37 PM To: steam.richard@...; Alwyn Smith <alwyn.smith@...>; Assen Stoyanov <assenstoyanov@...>; Barry <fossilbarry@...>; Calrailfans <[email protected]>; Chris Bates <chrisbates31@...>; Dave Hodson <dave.hodson21@...>; Dieter Hochhaus <lehgudi.zwei@...>; Graham Bentley <graham.bentley@...>; Jock Adams <aajadams@...>; KennethRoberts <kenbobby1234@...>; Michael Nestler <munda-nestler@...>; Mike Tisdale <tisdalem2001@...>; Roderick Moore <engineman70c@...>; Simon Talbot <s.j.n.talbot@...>; Tony Green <lizandtony1986@...>; Vic Drake <drake.victor.g@...>; johnsagar@...; [email protected] Subject: Re: Stockton Tuesday, 2014 ? A station 'announcement' at Edinburgh Waverley goes something like this (you have to say it quickly!!):- "The train at platform five is the four fifty four for Forfar and Fife; the front five are for Forfar and the rear four for Fife". Grahame.
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Re: Stockton Tuesday, 2014
As a boy, when I read about the Stockton and Darlington, I thought it ran near me!?? I was also a bit confused about the Sound of Music, how did the Trapp family get from Australia to Switzerland??? Then I found Austria on a map and got that bit, but wondered how Captain von Trapp was a naval commander for a country that didn't have a coastline?? The Nazis wanted a guy who'd run boats on the Danube River???? Eventually I understood about the size of Austro Hungary before 1918, but as a kid, there were some mysteries that took a bit more knowledge to overcome.?? Mike
On Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 02:15:10 AM PST, <steam.richard@...> wrote:
Different Stockton to what I was expecting!
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Del Paso Monday, 2014
10 Jan 2014, northbound BNSF train stopped in Del Paso siding. 4 BNSF GEs and an NS SD60. The WP searchlight signals are still in service here. Del Paso is north of downtown Sacramento, California on the UP Sacramento Sub, the former Western Pacific 2nd Sub. BNSF trains have trackage rights on UP from Stockton to Keddie.?? Mike Tisdale |
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Re: SLO Surfliner Saturday, 2019
SLO isn't huge, but it is home to a university and has decent restaurants. It is the midway point on the LA - SF Coast Route and the base of Cuesta, the crossing of the mountains for the railroad and US 101 to the Salinas Valley.??
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North of SLO, SR 1 is built along spectacular coastal cliffs, going by Big Sur en route to Monterey.? Most people have seen photos and video of SR 1 as it is often used for movies and ads.? The roads over the mountains to the San Joaquin Valley go through some very remote country.? We have almost 40 million people in California and the SF Bay Area has the population density of the Netherlands,? but there are lots of middle of nowhere places as well. Major roads such as 99 and 101 have people,? but make a left turn off of them and you can soon be in mountains or farmland with few people? Mike
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