I can never get tired of watching this. I remember it was a SP train in the movie Duel with Dennis Weaver.

When I was a kid we used to go hiking along the Tehachapi Loop. Loved watching the trains go through there.

This video is a time capsule for me since I live in Lancaster just further south of Mojave and I still do; making frequent drives to Mojave, Tehachapi, The Loop, and sometimes further to Bakersfield. In nineteen ninety I was only eight years old when this was taking place. In all my childhood I can remember seeing some of these road names of Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, and Rio Grande and I miss them so much. The railroads back then were so much more colorful with all the different companies passing through here. Now everything that does pass here is Union Pacific except when a unit from another road on loan comes by. Occasionally an old road unit that has only its number plates repainted to its new owner but still wears its old paint scheme comes through and it makes me a bit tearful how all that is gone now. Even the caboose is a bonus to see since those have been retired now. Its fascinating seeing things in this video that I'm familiar with but know that the course of its history has changed. The Loop is still there. Highway 58 is still there. The historic Tehachapi Depot burned down and was rebuilt. The Cal-Portland Cement Plant is still there. The wind turbines are all modernized tube tower high output now instead of the lattice frame towers. The curve of Highway 58 with the rails was destroyed in favor of a new bypass of Mojave making it a shadow of its former self. I really wanted this to continue further on and see Lancaster from the rails how things used to be.

No one could ever say that the SP wasn't a mountain railroad.

I'm so glad they recorded this. Knowing that the Espee would be Gone in a couple of years. May of 1996, (I think?)Is when The Espee was sold to Union Pacific. Now the Espee is Gone, we have Amazing videos Of the Espee.

I wish I could show the amount of appreciation I have towards these guys for filming their work, showing how railroading used to be on roads and times, long past. Thanks for posting!

Two thumbs up. I miss Espee and those magnificent tunnel motors.

Thank you for bringing back so many memories of camping at the loop with my family. Been visiting Tehachapi since I was just a baby. I'm 46 now. Parents moved there about 8 years ago. So many very fond memories watching the ATSF, and SP through the mountains. The long walks with my father, and brother up to Marcel, and just everything that came with being in the Tehachapi mountains. Loved it so much. Thanks again for sharing your trip with us. Understand the camera battery issue, loved it regardless.

Echoing many other comments this is a great memory. Thank you. The engineer on this train was Don Custer, RIP. I didn't recognize the others.

Love hearing the old SP Dispatcher in the background.

Wow this was just spectacular, amazing. Reminds me of the days back in schulenburg texas 1992, i sure miss seeing the old southern Pacific locomotives. But seeing this brings back them old days, long live Southern Pacific.

The expanse of open land out there is breathtaking.

Awesome video! I watched those oil cans for years struggle up and down the grades and it was great to have a cab view. Subscribed & Liked.

Wow! This has to be the Most Amazing video of Southern Pacific to a true SP Enthusiast! I use to see these all the time on the Pacific coast line. I sure do miss seeing these Trains. And hearing that awesome horn. Thank You so much for sharing!!!

I miss Espee and everything associated with it. I was pleasantly surprised to hear the dragger detector in this video. It brought back some memories. We use to call them Gladys after the woman who did the voice recording for the detectors on the Espee.

The sound of that amazing machine is like music to my ears 👂

One of the best cabride videos I've ever seen; done at a very interesting time in a world famous location. Filled with great details like "stretching the rail with burning rope" and even a way car here and there. How about that ranch house for $38 K? Thanks for posting it, gentlemen! Miss the SP all the more now.

I love those locomotives

Just the best time in Railroading.

Rest in Peace Southern Pacific I love the SP Oil Cans which is my favorite SP Train

That was cool,.the gyra in the tunnel!

hi from England this is in my opinion the best railroad vid ever!!!!featuring the best railroad ever the good ol espee wow one of the best 29mins @3 secs of my life

Love rewatching this? Especially shots looking back at other end,brutal horsepower..just amazing.

This was a nice blast from my past. Great video. Thanks for sharing. I really miss these locomotives.

Thanks for the ride. I could here that brake valve exhausting. Don’t miss that. Never liked it. Wasn’t till later in my career that Chessie started venting that thing under the floor.

Oh man I live about 30 minutes away from there. No more southern pacific just Union Pacific. Awesome man. Great video

Thanks for posting this!

Great video. This brings back strong memories of 1968 when i rode aboard the San Francisco Chief [ ATSF Train #1] and we went on the loop in the wee hours of the morning and made our on time arrival in Fresno at 5:45 A.M. Thank you for sharing.

Listen to the sound of that EMD 645 Prime Mover in that Locomotive , wow !

Boy, those "Tomcats" and "Big Jacks" had a nice sound to them. Nothing like they have now.

This is one of my favorite runs, but we go from Bakers through Barstow into Needles.

Head end brakeman, best job in the world. Damn, I miss those carefree days.

Great video,miss the friendly southern Pacific...Great railroad..

Need more awesome videos!

I drive my rig down 58 every night, find my self racing the train on this rail offen.

Sooooo Awesome!!! thanks for sharing the cabride!!!

Love the cab ride with narration!!!

4:09 rail conversations never change

I love the dynamic brakes and the engine chop with it.

Fantastic documentation, thank you. My favorite years in railroading.

Great video!!!!!!!!!

Great video. Thanks so much for posting. I really miss the SP.

As a trucker, I've been up and down that pass many times, but it's nice to see it from a different perspective. And if you change the playback speed up to 2, it makes you feel like you're almost out of control!😳

Never gets old

(from Canada) Priceless my friend, excellent

Awesome video! Takes me back to my Tehachapi trips in the 90s

...I used to make a 2000 mile round trip from Colorado twice a year to watch the Oil Cans on Tehachapi...thanks for the video...

That beautiful P3 horn!

A couple of minor nits: The tunnel identified as "Tunnel 6" is actually Tunnel 7 (T6 was daylighted after the 1952 earthquake). At the east end of Woodford, the bridge is identified as a crossing of Caliente Creek. The railroad actually leaves Caliente Creek at Caliente and follows Tehachapi Creek eastward, so this bridge is the 4th crossing of Tehachapi Creek. "Waylong" siding at the Tehachapi Loop is actually Walong (named for W. A. Long, an old-time railroad official). A fun video of a great railroad.

Thanks for sharing this with us miclc 062, awesome video! Don't get to see the SP from the conductors seat very often, wish the SP could come back. That also sounded like an entertaining crew you got to ride with too.

This was an excellent video as I had never seen many of these locations before even after visiting Bakersfield for 2 years and Mojave area off and on for the last 20 years. Thanks for sharing and please add more if you have them. Keith Johns

27:18 That's the unfiltered sound of power.

Awesome sound when meeting those two trains at Mojave.

Now this is railroading the way I remember. No wide cabs, no "on board" computers, no funny control stands and best of all no cute little orange and green safety vests. Glad I got out before Big Yella swallowed everything up.

Very nice just like being there. live few miles Canyon Country BNSF roars by near me several x day love it. Good Job Well Done !!!

The lead unit of the head end consist is my favorite engine. I selected it to be our "camera car" because the short hood end had a larger compartment in which

Amazing video ... great to see ol espee action ..

Always Wanted To Work For Southern Pacific. Remember All The Cabooses When I Was A Kid.🗻🌅🌄🌃🏭🏩🌄🌅🗻

Beautiful, thank you!

Hell Yeah! Old School! Hyatt traction motors!

Magnificent video. Thank you for sharing this with me really enjoyed watching.

Oh look it’s my normal job. Been there before. Glad you like it 👍🏽

i love that rainbow...sweet

Ha! hopped this route to LA last winter, it was dark though so didn't really get to see much.

What a great video, great times!!! long live the SP and Santa Fe!!!

I missed the old NS and classic Conrail!!!!

that is cool!! I heard that's one of the heaviest trains that was running on the SP too.

Very cool Video....

I used to monitor this train and its counterpart for the VP-Operations at One Market Plaza. I was a member of OP&C, Operations, Planning & Control.

thanks for posting this. Awesome footage!

Thanks airing the outstanding vid.Bliss

Really good, would love to take a trip like that myself some day.

I soooo miss those days!!

The day of this train ride was my 14th birthday 1\15\ 90

Born in 1990...the weather looks like how it used too...

I miss seeing the old black and red SP locos.

Choo choo! I'm a train and I approve this excellent video!

Just beautiful 🤩

It’s cool to compare the before and after. Some of the stuff that was just like in the video when I hired out with UP and some of the stuff that is gone and that has changed quite a lot recently.

2 words. FANTASTIC ...

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bom video da Southern Pacific, grande e forte locomotiva SD 40. Agradavel ouvir o ronco do possante motor diesel/eletrico. Bela maquina. Parabens Southern Pacific.

Good stuff!

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

really funny,,,,,as the video starts with the brakeman's door open and approaching a crossover switch,,,,,I instinctively looked at the approaching switch points ,,,,,,guess old habits never die!

MEN: The old SP! Great work sir!

Ha ha , my late father Curtis Hobbs used to video the rides too , would think you must have known him,,,

Great video!

just awesome thank you

Thanks for sharing this. I have always loved the oil can trains. Was there a caboose on the oil cans? Would you had preferred that the SF merger had been allowed as opposed to being swallowed up by UP? Were you still working when the UP merger happened? I hear it was a real mess for a long time.

Amazing trip, great ,thanks ,Geoff U.K

Love God loves you and your family

Great video thanks!

Nice. Thanks for sharing

Epic video!!!!!! AWESOME!!!

That was great,thanks.

I miss seeing those tunnel motors and the Espee in general. I think they would have been around a bit longer if they weren't doing so bad in their final years of operation.

awesome. i’m from bakersfield

I turned 5yeara old one that day in 1990 lol

Me playing Run8 :D Awesome footage!