ATSF 100 - Blue Cut, Cajon Pass, CA - 5/23/90 Editors Pick!        
This is just the second train on the Santa Fe to feature an all-Superfleet consist that included engines other than FP45s. GP60Ms 100 and 101 (spliced with FP45s 96 and 92) lead train 2-891-23 out of Los Angeles as they climb Cajon Pass on May 23, 1990. The previous day this same consist arrived in L.A., the first train to operate with the then-new GP60Ms. Officials are along for the ride as well, seated in business car "Mountainaire" just behind the diesels.
Date: 5/23/1990 Location: Cajon Pass, CA Views: 3431 Collection Of:   Craig Walker
Locomotives: ATSF 100(GP60M) ATSF 96(FP45) ATSF 92(FP45) ATSF 101(GP60M)    Author:  Craig Walker
ATSF 100 - Blue Cut, Cajon Pass, CA - 5/23/90
Picture Categories: Scenic,Action This picture is part of album:  1990s
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William H. Davis Jr. General Great shot 2/15/2011 9:43:05 AM
Ashley Rodriguez General why i love the ATSF! 2/16/2011 6:28:31 PM
Richard Whitenight General Craig, it must be like Warbonnet Nirvana to shoot at this location with those engines. Beautiful color and balance...great photo. 3/17/2011 3:32:56 AM
Alex Vaughn General Nice shot! 4/18/2011 12:37:43 AM
David Abeles General Awesome. 4/18/2011 8:00:04 AM
Chris S General Great catch, wonderful shot! 4/18/2011 2:14:08 PM
Scott Koehler General WOW!!!!!!!! The red and silver looks great. 4/18/2011 7:10:45 PM
Jim Satterwhite General It is hard to believe that 21-years worth of trains have come and gone through Blue Cut since this scene was captured. This photo is a well deserved Editor's Pick. 4/19/2011 6:27:26 PM
Marty Bernard General Many of the GP60Ms survive today with warbonnet colors on the BNSF secondary lines. Probably better than half of the FP45s are in museums with one operable. What a wonderful consist. 4/24/2011 10:48:44 PM
antonio dasilva General i can almost smell the fresh paint, nice shot!!!!! 4/28/2011 5:50:45 PM
Aidan Murray General Marty only 9 FP45s were made. They were renumbered 2 or 3 times. 94/104/5944 was scrapped after a collision in Toland, Texas in September of 1981, and the 96 was scrapped after the Decemder 14, 1994 Runaway on Cajon Pass, where a Santa Fe Intermodal Train ran into the back of a UP coal train 10/2/2019 9:15:10 PM

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