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In continuing the celebration of the 150 anniversary of completion of America\u2019s First Transcontinental, I present this view of a \u2018Kodachrome\u2019 painted Southern Pacific \u2018Tunnel Motor\u2019 on Donner Pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the mid-1980s, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe anticipated merger and so painted their respective locomotives in a bright yellow and red merger livery, similar to those colors once used on the familiar Kodak Kodachrome film boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few locomotives were lettered for the proposed new railroad, SPSF. Executives felt certain the merger would be approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Interstate Commerce Commission wasn\u2019t impressed and refused the merger, twice, so \u2018SPSF\u2019 came to mean \u2018shouldn\u2019t paint so fast.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this view of an eastward SP train at milepost 140 near Colfax, California on the ascent of Donner Pass on February 9, 1990, using a Leica M2 and, yes, Kodachrome film!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was one of the last trains I photographed with an SP locomotive in the lead with full-lighting package (headlight, oscillating headlight, red oscillating light and class lights) and dressed in the Kodachrome scheme.  By 1990, both of these features were on the wane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Colfax, California on the ascent of Donner Pass on February 9, 1990<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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