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9/25/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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ATSF 1569 with rare units
Title:  ATSF 1569 with rare units
Description:  I never thought I would ever see a ATSF SD39 in the Kodachrome Scheme, but my grandpa caught this all EMD consist at The Loop. The SD39 leads a pair of GP30s (One in the Yellowbonnet and one in the Kodachrome Scheme), a GP35, a GP20 and a SD40 - 2 as they go around the Loop
Photo Date:  4/14/1989  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 3:54:09 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 1569(SD39) ATSF 2713(GP30u) ATSF 2908(GP35u) ATSF 2710(GP30u)
Views:  1612   Comments: 0
ATSF 1569
Title:  ATSF 1569
Description:  A SD39 in the Kodachrome Scheme leads a pair of GP30s (One in the Yellowbonnet and one in a Kodachrome Scheme, both #s needs confirmation), a GP35, a GP20, and a SD40 - 2 (# needs confirmation) at The Loop about to go into Walong Tunnel
Photo Date:  4/14/1989  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 3:55:49 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 1569(SD39) ATSF 2713(GP30u) ATSF 2908(GP35u) ATSF 2710(GP30u) ATSF 3005(GP20u) ATSF 5033(SD40-2)
Views:  1758   Comments: 1
ATSF 1569
Title:  ATSF 1569
Description:  This is quite a scenic photo with a Tehachapi Mountains in the background a SD39 in the Kodachrome Scheme leading a ATSF freight
Photo Date:  4/14/1989  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 3:59:08 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 1569(SD39)
Views:  942   Comments: 0
ATSF 5325
Title:  ATSF 5325
Description:  The good old days of railroading that is pretty much gone today and only in the memories of photos, a full 45 series consist with 2 SD45s, a SD45 - 2, and a F45 leading a freight train to The Loop
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:58:55 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5325(SD45u) ATSF 5255(SDF40-2) ATSF 5830(SD45-2u) ATSF 5357(SD45u)
Views:  1392   Comments: 0
ATSF 5325
Title:  ATSF 5325
Description:  A SD45 leads another SD45, a SD45 - 2, and a F45 on this freight train about to tackle The Loop, gotta love those 40/45 series EMDs with the EMD 645
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:59:31 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5325(SD45u) ATSF 5255(SDF40-2) ATSF 5830(SD45-2u) ATSF 5357(SD45u)
Views:  1351   Comments: 0
ATSF 5325 and gang
Title:  ATSF 5325 and gang
Description:  A ATSF SD45 leads a F45, a SD45 - 2, and another SD45 in this all SD45 series consist to The Loop, I can identify all the units
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:58:24 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5325(SD45u) ATSF 5255(SDF40-2) ATSF 5830(SD45-2u) ATSF 5357(SD45u)
Views:  1259   Comments: 0
ATSF 566
Title:  ATSF 566
Description:  All the Dash 8s are identified and counted for, they are either going to tackle The Loop or already did, this set has marked the end of EMD domance in the US and the start of GEs
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:20:51 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 566(B40-8W) ATSF 505(B40-8W) ATSF 502(B40-8W) ATSF 518(B40-8W)
Views:  1557   Comments: 1
ATSF 566
Title:  ATSF 566
Description:  We turn from the 1989 trips my grandpa took to a 1991 trip that my dad and grandpa took to Cajon Pass and Tehachapi Loop. Now, it's starting to turn to GE for ATSF and EMDs all the way for SP. Here we see a quartet of Red and Silver Dash 8 - 40BWs leading a intermodal train through the Loop area
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:20:10 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 566(B40-8W) ATSF 505(B40-8W)
Views:  1205   Comments: 0
2 Warbonnets Plus 4 Yellowbonnets
Title:  2 Warbonnets Plus 4 Yellowbonnets
Description:  ATSF #97 and gang are climbing up The Loop with this freight train, a pair of FP45s leads a quartet of SD45s. Thanks to my dad's photos, three of the four SD45s can be identified
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:47:53 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 97(FP45) ATSF 95(FP45) ATSF 5395(SD45u) ATSF 5336(SD45u) ATSF 5349(SD45u)
Views:  1819   Comments: 0
ATSF 97 and other EMDs
Title:  ATSF 97 and other EMDs
Description:  Well, I guess ATSF still had pure EMD consists in 1991, here we see a pair of FP45s leading 4 SD45s around The Loop with this freight
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:47:12 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 97(FP45) ATSF 91(FP45) ATSF 5395(SD45u) ATSF 5336(SD45u) ATSF 5349(SD45u)
Views:  1912   Comments: 0
Peekaboo
Title:  Peekaboo
Description:  I don't know if SSW GP60 #9652 is coming out of the Walong Tunnel or playing peekaboo with my grandpa and dad. But here the power is coming out of the tunnel
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:35:29 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SSW 9652(GP60)
Views:  1014   Comments: 0
SSW 9652 and SP Tunnel Motors
Title:  SSW 9652 and SP Tunnel Motors
Description:  A SSW GP60 leads a pair of SP SD45T - 2 Tunnel Motors around The Loop with this freight, must have been great times then
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:34:10 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SSW 9652(GP60) SP 6811(SD45T-2R) SP 9314(SD45T-2)
Views:  1313   Comments: 0
SSW 9652 Tackling The Loop
Title:  SSW 9652 Tackling The Loop
Description:  A Cotton Belt GP60 leads a pair of SP SD45T - 2s and a freight train. They about to go to the tunnel and head up the Loop
Photo Date:  12/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 4:33:18 PM
Location:  Tehachapi Loop, CA
Author:  Eric Bitton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SSW 9652(GP60) SP 6811(SD45T-2R) SP 9314(SD45T-2)
Views:  1311   Comments: 0


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