Just imagine how many folks could use those split back front seats in their tri-five coupe. 1 more car I promise, Rex Winter Dry n windy Lubbock TX
Love the Saab photos! I have had two of them over my life time. My wife and I did a lot of road rally stuff in one of those lovable odd ball cars. The daily driver was a wagon. The both would go anywhere. The wagon was put through its basis many times as I was into off road bicycling at the time.
Pasadena, CA. The Santa Fe Super Chief crossing Colorado Blvd. Fortunately, it was not January 1st, or the Annual Rose Parade would have been interupted...
Trick of the lens I guess but it looks like The Chief has to go through a building to keep going. Hard to see the right of way. Cool shot.
All the Santa Fe passenger trains going back east (to Chicago) or down south (to San Diego) start out at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. The first stop to pick up passengers is Pasadena Station, which is two blocks south (toward your right if you were standing where the camera is located). Any Santa Fe passenger train going anywhere other than San Diego stops at Pasadena Station, as did the train in this photo. Of course, there are no more Santa Fe passenger trains anymore. All passenger trains today are Amtrak, and leave Union Station in L.A., with routes that do not pass through Pasadena. Some of the original track (or rightaway) between Union Station and Pasadena are still in use today, with SoCal's Light Rail service (same track gauge as the original). The Light Rail system is very good, and all trains wind up or have connections to Union Station in downtown L.A...
If that picture was taken around 61-63 and the engine number was 20/19 that just may be my dad at the controls. He was so proud the be a locomotive engineer. I once told him that I wanted to work for the AT&SF but he said that there was no future in it because the government would take over the industry eventually.
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