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This story deals with the special train moments that I have caught through the years that I have been photographed and riding trains. Let me take you back in time to some of these special moments.
The first special moment I ever saw was the United Aircraft Turbo Train heading south along Lincoln Street in Santa Ana in 1971. I still have a button that was tossed to me. The picture was taken a few days later in Los Angeles.
The American Freedom Train paid a visit to Anahiem on it's two year tour of the lower 48 states It stpped here at the Big A in anaheim in January of 1976.
The westbound UP Diectors Train on a rainy April morning in 1977.
SP 4449 made a surprise trip to Los Angeles and left on May 13th, 1981.
Santa Fe 5997 East heading to Cajon for a photo session was caught right after sunrise at West Corona in February of 1983.
A Union Pacific Directors Train headed east over Cajon on 1983.
The Pacific Railroad Society ran the first passenger train over the Southern Pacific's Palmdale Cutoff on October 23rd,1983, a roundtrip to Mojave via the cutoff both ways.
The Pacific Railroad Society ran the Desert Scout to Barstow via the 3rd District in November of 1984.
The Pacific Railroad Society ran the Cushenbury Caravan to Cushenbury via the Santa Fe
3rd District and the 1st District to Hesperia where we turn east on the branch to the
cement plant at the end. May 4th, 1985
The Pacific Railroad Indio Date Limited Train ran east through San Timoteo Canyon in February 22nd,1987 seen coming and going.
Santa Fe ran a 100 Years of the 2nd District Special on October 17,1987 seen crossing the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena.
Southern Pacific Super Bowl Special at Avenue S in Palmdale on January 30th,1988.
Southern Pacific ran a Super Bowl Train to Los Angeles in January 30th,1988.
Amtrak 572 with the private cars headed to the Super Bowl in San Diego on January 31,1988.
Right behind it was the Santa Fe Super Bowl Train. January 31st,1988
I rode the Pacific Railroad Society Mojave Circle, an outbound through Soledad Canyon and return over the Palmdale Cutoff to Los Angeles on April 17, 1988.
UP 8444 on the Frost Crossover on it's way to the 50th Anniversary of Los Angeles Union Station on May 5th,1989.
The SP 4449 and UP 8444 entered Union Station at Los Angeles on May 4th,1989.
On the 5th of May, the diesels were posed historic position like in a famous pictures at Los Angeles Union station.
The all private car special returning from the APRCO Convention in San Diego on 10/8/1989.
An all Superliner Bike Club Special returns from San Diego on October 22nd,1989.
GO Transit 552 East head south for San Diego after being displayed at Union Station in Los Angeleson October 19th,1990. The engine and car was used as a demonstration of GO Transit Service in Toronto for members of the transportion committees that would later start Metrolink in the LA Area and the Coaster in San Diego.
One of Santa Fe's Rail Cycle Special headed east through Rialto on June 14th, 1991.
The California Limited with Santa Fe 3751 ran through Fullerton to start it's four day excursion Los Angeles to Bakersfield and return on December 27,1991. I rode from Barstow to Bakersfield the next day on the 28th.
The Santa Fe Employee Recognition Special was pulled the Santa Fe 3751 seen climbing Cajon Pass August 30, 1992.
Southern Pacific 2472 pulled an excursion train to Los Angeles to be into postion to run on the Earth Train. Here it is seen at Tajiguas on the Coast Line on September 13th,1992.
The Santa Fe 3751 is seen returning from Chicago on September 16th,1992 at Lavic on the Santa Fe Employee Recognition Special.
Amtrak ran an all private car Super Bowl Special from Indio to Glendale on January 31st,1993. Here is the deadhead eastbound move near Beaumont.
Amtrak's Super Bowl Special Oceanside to Glendale used two Metrolink Units for power coming through Irvine on January 31th,1993.
The Feather River Society ran a Oroville to Westwood on the Highline on January 10,1994.
UP 3985 came to Ontario for the UP Historical Society Convention with a pair of Ontario to Barstow Excursion. Here it's passing through Colton on the first trip east on May 21st,1994.
California Equipment and a Metrolink Traim were on display at Santa ana in May of 1985 for a NARP Meeting. After the meeting, we boarded the Metrolink Train for a trip over the Olive Branch through Santa Ana Canyon to San Bernardino and a trip over the new Metrolink Flyover there.
Union Pacfic 949 East pulled a Director's Train east through Rana on July 3rd,1995.
Santa Fe 3751 was on it's way to Railfair 99 at the Horseshoe Curve in Santa Ana Canyon on June 16th, 1999.
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