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Fall Color Special. Subject: Railroading [1]

['Alan Kandel', 'Chitown Kev']

Date: 2026-10-04  

SP #9331 eastbound going around the horn on the #2 track. Cape Horn, CA in November 1980 Roger Puta via Wikimedia Commons

GP40-2 #145 with the B&O Orange Blossom Special at Halethrope, Maryland, on Nov. 12, 1987 Roger Puta via Wikimedia Commons

DDA40X #6945, SD40-2 #3600 and SD40-2 #3230 roll tonnage westbound nearing Pulga, Calif. in the Feather River Canyon in October 1984 Roger Puta via Wikimedia Commons

VIA #6758 at Wesleyville Road, westbound in Ontario, Canada in October 1980 Roger Puta via Wikimedia Commons

And the one below thrown in for good measure…

After The Storm Alan Kandel

I captured the above scene on the then Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway’s Valley Division (on BNSF’s Stockton Subdivision today) between Fresno (milepost 999.7) and Madera (MP 1024.0) just north of the San Joaquin River in southern Madera County. The view is looking west. Noticeable is a high-voltage transmission line, trees, the outline of a[n] electrical substation and closer to the camera the silhouette of a pair of searchlight signals.

I’ve decided to call this one “After The Storm”.

This article was first published at All About Trains

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