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Santa Fe GE C30-7 8105, followed by rebuilt (in Santa Fe's shops) SF30C 8795, an SD45, and one more locomotive haul a UPS train west (compass direction north) around Tehachapi Loop, California, 1985.
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Santa Fe GP35 2805, plus another GP35 and a GP30 heading eastward and upgrade at Tehchapi Loop, California, 1986
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Santa Fe EMD-built 3,600 hp SD45-2 number 5714 at Tehachapi Loop, California, in the late winter of 1985-86.
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2 SP "Cadillacs", EMD-built and SP-rebuilt SD9E locomotives, headed by number 4369, lead a helper set downgrade from Tehchachapi Pass to Bakersfield, California, 1986
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3 SD45T-2 and an SD45 pull a long eastbound freight around Tehachapi Loop, California, in the late afternoon of a summer, 1985, day.
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Climbing the eatbound grade from Tehachapi Loop, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 4449 and its diesel helpers head eastbound with the "World's Fair Daylight", May, 1984.
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Eastbound and entering the town of Tehachapi, a Santa Fe freight powered by 6 units leaves the Pass to begin flatland running toward Barstow and beyond, May, 1984.
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Just after sundown on an early Spring day, a Santa Fe helper set drifts west and downgrade at Tehachapi Loop, California, March, 1984.
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3600 horsepower from a V-20 diesel engine was an attractive prospect for the Southern Pacific, and the railroad bought hundreds of SD45 and SD45T-2 locomotives that were so equipped. Here, an SD45 leads an SP freight around the Tehachapi Loop in Californi
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Santa Fe GP30 2718 (already 22 years old) is the last unit in a string of helpers pushing an eastbound freight train around and up the curves and grades of California's Tehachapi Pass in the summer of 1985.
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Santa Fe all the way, 2 SD45, 1 SD45-2, and an SD40-2 with an eastbound train in Tehachapi Pass, California, summer of 1985.
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4 Southern Pacific EMD "tunnel motor" locomotives in the service they were designed for, pull a long eastbound through the tunnels and around the curves of Tehachapi Loop in California, summer, 1985.
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Through the heart of the Golden State, a Santa Fe eastbound freight from the Bay Area winds around the golden hills on a summer day in Tehachapi Loop in 1985.
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As the World's Fair Daylight made its way around Techachapi Loop and continued eastward, it was paced by a motocade that, in most places, couldn't quite keep up with the pace of the fast 4-8-4 steam locomotive.
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It was quite an event in 1984 when the World's Fair Daylight special train from the West Coast to New Orleans traveled over the famous Tehachapi Loop with SP 4-8-4 4449 and two specailly painted SP diesels, plus a TV news helicopter.
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Southern Pacific SD9 4369 leads a helper set downgrade through Tehachapi Loop in Kern County, California, 1986.
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Late in the afternoon on a summer day in 1985, Santa Fe GP30 2728, its hood doors open for additional engine cooling, drifts downgrade, part of a set of helper locomotives, Tehachapi Loop, Kern County, California.
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SP and Santa Fe freights meet on Tehachapi Loop, Kern County, California, 1985
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Southern Pacific SD45 7416 leading a westbound freight train around Tehachapi Loop in California, November 27, 1985.
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SP's "Oil Cans" train from Bakersfield climbs the grade at Tehachapi Loop, spring of 1985.
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Santa Fe light helpers drifting downgrade around Tehachapi Loop en route to Bakersfield, after cutting off their train at the summit of the pass, spring, 1985.
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Around the loop, spring, 1985.
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Santa Fe midtrain helpers on an eastbound freight train, Tehachapi Loop, California, 1985
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Around the loop, spring, 1985
