{"id":16428,"date":"2016-08-13T05:51:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16428"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:02:53","slug":"photographing-passenger-trains-on-californias-santa-susana-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/photographing-passenger-trains-on-californias-santa-susana-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing Passenger Trains on California\u2019s Santa Susana Pass."},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the day, Southern Pacific\u2019s famed Daylight<\/em> was often pictured crossing Santa Susana Pass\u2014a scenic cleft in the rocks between Simi Valley and Chatsworth, California.<\/p>\n

Once a remote area, this is now hemmed in by suburban development, freeways and public parks.<\/p>\n

Riding Metrolink, I\u2019d noted several potentially interesting locations on the west side of the pass (SP timetable west, today Union Pacific timetable north).<\/p>\n

Reviewing Google Maps, I found that views of the line should be accessible from Corriganville Park, located a little ways to the east of Simi Valley. So one afternoon last week, David Hegarty and I made an exploration of the area.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a flurry of Metrolink and Amtrak trains in the evening. We found some locations near CP Davis (location of a passing siding) with an aim to make images of BNSF GE-built AC4400CWs that have been working many Metrolink trains.<\/p>\n

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A BNSF General Electric-built AC4400CW works\u00a0Metrolink 118 near CP Davis on the west (north) side of Santa Susana Pass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A few of Metrolink’s F59PHI diesels have the full paint treatment completed with blue and aqua ribbons. It was nice to get this one working with a bit of scenery on train 117 from Los Angeles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Although not the prettiest locomotives, Metrolink’s boxy model F59PH diesels make for a bit of variety. Here train 119 is seen near tunnel 26.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Amtrak Pacific Surfliner, train 790, featured a GE Genesis P42 instead of the Amtrak F59PH’s more commonly assigned to California services. The engine is at the back of the consist working in push-pull mode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I exposed these images with my FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera, but I also made a few color slides that will be processed at a later date.<\/p>\n

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Back in the day, Southern Pacific\u2019s famed Daylight was often pictured crossing Santa Susana Pass\u2014a scenic cleft in the rocks between Simi Valley and Chatsworth, California. Once a remote area, this is now hemmed in by suburban development, freeways and public parks. Riding Metrolink, I\u2019d noted several potentially interesting locations on the west side of … Continue reading Photographing Passenger Trains on California\u2019s Santa Susana Pass.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3786,31,3748,3749,749,3747,42],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Metrolink_117_at_tunnel_near_CP_Davis_DSCF1726.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4gY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16429,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16428\/revisions\/16429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}