Nice catch!
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| Posted by Old Head on May 2, 2007 | |
Are you sure she's heading to Sacramento? Judging from the station location (it's on the north side of the tracks), and the long tangent behind the train (northbound approach to Fullerton is on a curve), my guess is she's really going south!
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Your are correct, "Old Head" ... well, kind of. This line is an east-west line, and the train is heading east. And, Sacramento is to the north. But the BNSF doesn't head north out of LA -- only east. So, on day one the 3751 headed east from LA, over Cajon Pass, to Barstow, where the train was wyed -- and the railroad's two California lines meet. Day two the train headed west out of Barstow and over Tehachapi toward northern California and Sacramento. That is why rail travel between southern and northern California was traditionally on the Southern Pacific, as they had two direct routes and Santa Fe had no direct route. (But, in this case, it just meant more days to chase the 3751!)
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Nice capture. I was standing on the platform that day wondering how you guys on the footbridge dealt with the smoke. Of all the times I've seen 3751, the moment you caught was somehow the most dramatic for me.
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