A great piece of Southern pacific history if your a fan of the SP or even of railroad construction history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1O0kpdk4Vw
Enjoy the movie
Rick
Interesting, I just watched that earlier this week.
Wow, what a massive project that was!
Thanks Rick, fascinating to watch what, at the time, was an enormous railroad project. Makes our garden railroad labours pale into insignificance in a way. But we get more aches as few have the mechanical resources they had.
Thanks great film.
So I now have a couple of questions.
1st : is this route still being used today?
2nd : How stable has it been , ant major repairs ?
There is a problem with the cause way, it has small passage ways for the water and the northern part is ‘going bad’… just to verify my memory I lifted the following from a google search…
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Officials are closely monitoring the impact the new breach in the Great Salt Lake causeway is having on the waterbody. … The north arm was also salty to the point of saturation, virtually severed by the causeway from any freshwater inflows. But as water flows from south to north, a lot of unknowns remain.Dec 13, 2016 "
I’m surprised it took that long to change.
I noticed they went from a loong opened area between lakes , ( wood trestle ) to two small culverts.
Not enough water letter outers !!! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Hey Rick, thanks for posting that. I watched the whole thing, and really enjoyed it.
The film was produced the year I was born. And I almost wish I was born 30 years earlier, to participate in such big (as a friend would say) “hubba hubba” engineering feats. Really amazing stuff.
Cliff
Roll on, Southern Pacific by Neal Young.
Steve,
Great tribute to the GS series in Daylight colors, my most favorite prototype locos even though I am a logging modeler.
Of course, this just begs me to post the video my B-i-L and I did back in the 80’s of the 4449 on its way from Portland to LA.
We chased and filmed it from just north of Dunsmuir, CA to just west of Red Bluff, CA.
The music my not be as good but I think the pictures are better(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Take a look, Rick