Santa Fe Stack Train Cresting Cajon Pass: The GreatRails North American Railroad Photo Archive

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Santa Fe Stack Train Cresting Cajon Pass

ATSF 872 (C40-8W), ATSF 854 (C40-8W), ATSF 93 (FP45), and ATSF 5805 (SD45-2U), the 1st 3 in red and silver warbonnets, the 4th in blue with a yellowbonnet, lead a Los Angeles bound stack train past the station sign at Summit, CA at the crest of Cajon Pass. The depot which once provided work for Chard Walker, well known to 1960's and 1970's Trains readers, and the other operators at Summit is no longer here, but the sign still provides identity for the location.
<BR>Summit Post Office Road still provides a public grade crossing about where i am standing to get this photo, although there is no longer a post office here to reach by crossing the tracks.

Photographed by Warren Beckwith, February, 1994.
Added to the photo archive by Warren Beckwith, August 2, 2021.
Railroad: Santa Fe (AT&SF).

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The "old" Cajon summit was higher and off to the left in this photo. The old Santa Fe route passed to the right of the small hill seen behind and to the right of the "Summit" sign. The cut seen behind and to the left of the Summit sign is the SP Palmdale cutoff.

Posted by Carl Weber Jr. on 2022-03-10 15:08:25

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