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Southern Pacific:
Sacramento Division
The time from the late-1950s
until the mid-1990s were years of transition and decline of the SP’s influence in the west;
however, the photographs and extended captions presented
here emphasize the railroad in its former, healthy condition. With 223 photographs by
45 photographers, Southern Pacific: Sacramento Division presents a thorough look at
SP’s mainline and branchline operations from Dunsmuir to
Fresno, and from Sacramento to Ogden. The presentation illustrates the dramatic geographic and geologic
conditions through which the Southern Pacific’s various Sacramento Division lines were built, from pastoral
O. Winston Link made one of his most famous photographs at Hawksbill Creek in Luray, Va., where he photographed kids splashing in the water as a Y-class locomotive passed overhead in 1956. On July 5 NS SD70ACe No. 1161 leads a northbound train across the same bridge that Link photo- graphed 59 years earlier. PHOTO BY STEVE BARRY
on the N&W mainline by the time 2016 rolls around. When I headed to Virginia with my brother Bruce and R&R contributing editor Michael Burkhart, we knew this was the last chance for scenes involving an N&W steam locomotive and N&W signals, and we made the best of it. Even our steam downtime was spent shooting diesels passing the CPLs. One of the classic (an overused word, I
know, but appropriate here) scenes we wanted to get was of 611 popping out of Montgomery Tunnel just east of Christiansburg. We found out shortly after arriving in Roanoke that the tunnel would not be a good shot. The ongoing clearance project to allow double- stack container trains to use the old N&W
mainline had hit Montgomery, and there were construction trailers and equipment in place. The south tunnel of the twin bores was being notched to permit the passage of the taller rail cars. We did take some time to visit Montgomery when 611 wasn’t running, and we did get a westbound freight emerging from the tunnel (page 64). All in all, though, we found a surprising
number of CPLs still standing, especially east of Roanoke. Webster, Blue Ridge, Villamont, Montvale, Forest, and other places all had complete sets of signals still standing untouched. West of Roanoke was a different story. While the CPLs were still largely in use, replacement signals were already standing in
farming land, to deserts, to rugged mountains.
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