Pictures
#1
Posted 27 July 2009 - 01:18 PM
#2
Posted 28 July 2009 - 12:10 AM
Picasa:
OTOL SoCal RailFest '09
YouTube:
Metrolink 402 Running To Riverside Downtown
BNSF Intermodal Eastbound At Riverside Downtown
BNSF Intermodal Westbound At Riverside Downtown
Pacific Surfliner 768 Departs Oceanside
Sprinter Departs Oceanside
Sprinter Arrives Oceanside
Sprinter Departure, Cab View
Coaster Bearing OTOL Fest Departs Oceanside
My Post-Fest:
Pacific Surfliner 578 Arrives Oceanside
Dome Sweet Dome 1: Surfliner 583 Arrives OSD, 7-21-09
Dome Sweet Dome 2: Surfliner 583 Departs OSD, 7-21-09
#3
Posted 28 July 2009 - 03:02 AM
Kevin Korell
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#4
Posted 28 July 2009 - 10:17 AM
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#5
Posted 28 July 2009 - 11:37 AM
I have several videos, too, but haven't yet found time to Youtube them.
#6
Posted 28 July 2009 - 11:37 PM
Before the Fest I was berating myself for never having done the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line and for having to miss riding it with the Fest. Seeing some of these photos (virtually certain they're that line) made me realize that I saw the territory during the Coast Starlight Tehachapi Detour in June '08. Now all I have left to gripe about is not doing the San Berdoo Line, and missing it with the Fest. Thanks for the pics, Chris.And mine.
#7
Posted 28 July 2009 - 11:51 PM
I don't know if you've ridden the Sunset Limited yet, but it runs on a small part of the San Bernardino Line around El Monte.Now all I have left to gripe about is not doing the San Berdoo Line, and missing it with the Fest.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
#8
Posted 29 July 2009 - 02:00 PM
Yes, the routing of the Tehachapi detour brings back fond memories of my first interaction with a certain non-OTOLler who joined us. I found out how and when it's announced, and most other minutiae besides the answer to my thrice-asked question 'what route does it take?' I eventually gave up and discovered independently that yes, it goes all the way out to almost Colton, then turns north and goes through the Cajon pass to join Metrolink just south of Palmdale and run alongside it (AFAIK two single-tracks sharing ballast and looking like double track, but different owners) for about 9 miles before Metrolink ends at their Lancaster miniyard and UP continues on to Tehachapi, Bakersfield and Sacramento (whence its normal route)....made me realize that I saw the territory during the Coast Starlight Tehachapi Detour in June '08....
Edited by chuljin, 29 July 2009 - 03:24 PM.
#10
Posted 31 July 2009 - 02:30 PM
True. But that is just the flat portion from Palmdale to Lancaster, assuming of course that the detour followed UP up Cajon Pass and then along the Palmdale Cutoff. The best part of the Antelope Valley Line however is through Soledad Canyon (between Palmdale and Santa Clarita), which you missed. So you might still want to travel the Antelope Valley line, albeit, you could turn back at Palmdale and not go all the way to Lancaster.
Before the Fest I was berating myself for never having done the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line and for having to miss riding it with the Fest. Seeing some of these photos (virtually certain they're that line) made me realize that I saw the territory during the Coast Starlight Tehachapi Detour in June '08.And mine.
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