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Mike Tisdale All Messages By This Member #137 A California Northern GP15-1 heads south through spring blossoms in February 2015. Mike Tisdale
Dave Saums All Messages By This Member #138 开云体育 I always found the California Northern paint scheme to be intriguing.? I relish my few chases of the line, so typically Californian -- and shades of SP.? The GP15-1 has always been a favorite, also, and it surprised me when the model went into the catalog that there were not more railroads that went for it, given all the pre -2 units in existence at the time.? I see that the orange curtain has descended on the California Northern. Dave Saums Amesbury MA Get
Mike Tisdale All Messages By This Member #139 Yes, the old green and cream was a distinctive paint job. I wish I'd gotten more photos in that era before the Orange Borg took over. I guess railroads decided they could rebuild their early Geeps for less money than EMD was charging to turn them into "Lionel does a tunnel motor".?? This line was a main line until the 1980s.? SP used to run their Oregon passenger trains up the West Valley Sub, missing Sacramento, but saving probably an hour off the schedule by not going via Roseville, Marysville and Chico.? Now Amtrak routes the Starlight onto the ex-WP at Binney Jct. in Marysville, which saves a bit of time compared to the ex-SP via Roseville and still serves Sacramento and Chico.?? Spring is the time to shoot the Central Valley, and spring comes in February with the trees coming into bloom. Mike Tisdale On Friday, January 17, 2020, 03:37:20 AM PST, Dave Saums <dsaums@...> wrote: I always found the California Northern paint scheme to be intriguing.? I relish my few chases of the line, so typically Californian -- and shades of SP.? The GP15-1 has always been a favorite, also, and it surprised me when the model went into the catalog that there were not more railroads that went for it, given all the pre -2 units in existence at the time.? I see that the orange curtain has descended on the California Northern. Dave Saums Amesbury MA Get

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