Cab Ride on the Santa Fe Stockton Sub. (Richmond Ca.to Trull)

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  @stevearnold2304 · 7 years ago

  Yukon Jack. Those days will never be repeated. We got to actually live them!

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  @colinmulder6806 · 8 years ago

  I've got to admit this one of the next best thing to seeing what Santa Fe's Valley Division out of Richmond is like, thanks very much.

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  @djtdub1 · 5 years ago (edited)

  I never thought I would ever see a cab ride through Franklin Canyon. A great railroad landmark and so close to an urban area. Starting from around <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_gukUGkHc&amp;t=1140">19:00</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_gukUGkHc&amp;t=3480">58:00</a>.<br>That segment is a bucket list experience. imho.

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  @keithcordes4430 · 2 years ago

  I’m 29, from New York, and always have been enamored with the power of trains. Specifically freight trains. When I was a kid in the 90s my dad got me this N scale Santa Fe set and I LOVED it. Still to this day the love of trains continues. Watching these vintage videos and thinking these guys have the best job in the world. You’re the king of the rails! The emperor of the north….

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  @yukonjack9696 · 7 years ago

  I was a Santa Fe conductor out of Amarillo in those days. This catches the sound and feel that I remember. Thanks

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  @jamesrowelljamer919 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Awesome footage sir. I&apos;m a Kansas native with a late great uncle that was born on an ATSF passenger train in 1928 outside of Trinidad, CO. His middle name was Santa Fe Lee and the company offered to pay for his college education then. He enlisted in the military instead. Another late great uncle who ran for the ATSF trucking division locally out of Great Bend, KS and the area of Kansas I&apos;m from was full of branch lines that serviced grain elevators and passenger services. All of those lines were pulled back in the 90&apos;s but some trestles remain and I will always have the memories of the glory days.

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  @yankinga · 10 years ago

  Love the sound of those EMDs gutting it out. This is before the age of exhaust silencers.

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  @woodsy4688 · 7 years ago

  Hello Steve. Your video finally came in on a recommendation for me so I’m just now getting to see it. What a great video. I was lucky enough to attend and graduate one of the many Santa Fe conductor training classes in 95 - 96. My training jurisdiction was Richmond to Fresno. After graduation I only worked for 2 days in Stockton and pretty much had to go back to my previous job due to my low seniority and the high rate of graduates. I sure had a great experience meeting a lot of wonderful people. Being able to experience a cab ride in one of the GE Dash-9 was pretty amazing I have to say. Although I’ve I’ve forgotten a lot, this video certainly brought back a lot of great memories of the 3 months of training I had. Thank you for sharing and sorry to hear about your injury. Take care.

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  @TexasSteelRails · 10 years ago

  This is probably the best cab ride video I have ever watched on Youtube, thank you for sharing

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  @Imnotyourdoormat · 2 years ago

  <b>Name that train the ... </b><i><b>&quot;Cannonball.&quot;</b></i><b></b>

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  @Tank245 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Did you ever think back then that 28 years later you&apos;d have a railroad buddy who wasn&apos;t even born yet in 1992? lol

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  @Denniss7420 · 9 years ago

  Good memories! &nbsp;I photographed Glen Frazier, Sando, East Antioch, &nbsp;Knightsen from 1983 &nbsp;- 1993. &nbsp; Shot all of the Kodachromes freshly painted out of San Bernardino on their shake down runs, all of the set outs of woodchips from the #839 and #849 trains as well as the pick ups on the #928 trains at Antioch. &nbsp;Superfleets when they were delivered fresh from EMD and GE and on the #199 trains.<br>Usually could get a cab ride on the 1st Pittsburg switcher as they switched out Domtar, Crown Zellerbach, Dupont and many other industries which are now gone.

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