On May 28, 2017, BNSF Railway train H-BARSDG1-28 was heading from Barstow to San Diego when it was held at Atwood, an old station in eastern Anaheim and the junction between BNSF’s San Bernardino Subdivision and Metrolink’s Olive Subdivision. The Olive Sub is 5½ miles long and single-track. At the south end it joins Metrolink’s Orange Sub (in Orange), which is double-track for a little over 20 miles. The dispatcher working the Olive and Orange Subs this evening held the San Diego-bound freight for just under two hours, waiting for a meet with northbound Metrolink 860, making its way from Oceanside to San Bernardino. When the DS held the freight, the passenger train was still in Oceanside – about 55 miles away! Admittedly, there were a few Amtrak Pacific Surfliners on the Orange Sub during this time, but being a weekend (and, therefore, a lighter Metrolink schedule), I was dumbfounded when I figured out what the delay on the BNSF train was. I’d gotten a tip about it coming, and was afraid that I’d missed it here where it crosses the “mighty” Santa Ana River (and, in the process, crosses from Anaheim into Orange). If I hadn’t gotten some “intel” that it was still sitting at Atwood an hour later, I would have left and missed this. So, I waited another hour to get the shot (much to my wife’s dismay … “It’s nearby, Honey, so I shouldn’t be gone too long.” She knows that 30 minutes in railfanning is more like 90 minutes – just like in football – so she wasn’t surprised.) Thankfully, a competent dispatcher wasn’t working this day, or I might have missed it.
GE manufactured safety cab locomotives, refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GE_locomotives for a complete list.
NOTE: This album includes photos of modern GE passenger locos.
