not the worst I've seen...and better than NWP to the north, but yeah. They don't perform too much maintenance.
When they eventually pile up a train and get sued, the money they could have spent on track maintenance will be cheap compared to the dollars courts award to litigants.
I drove up to Santa Rosa with my ex Saturday morning and passed through Tracy, Ca and caught this Western Pacific box car sitting on a siding: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
And someCalifornia Northern locos downtown: Including this ex SP bay window Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sheeesh -- there must be a million idle "artists" with spray cans these days. They're worth what they're paid. There are ~ 1.6 Million freight cars in service on U.S. Class 1 railroads alone and it's a rare car that hasn't been ruined. I'm blessed to have grown up in an era before this sort of gangland form of expression became acceptable and admired. <Soapbox mode off>
Stay on that soapbox, Hardcoaler. It's those who speak up who get heard. Sort of. I love that overhead shot of the Portuguese railway station.
I agree. That this sort of stupidity is given any such acceptance says a lot about our declining nation/culture.
I know they operate a lot of SP's old West Side line which follows apart CA. 33 from Tracy to past Newman, where i am now. I can hear the trains pass through town, Saturday in Tracy was my first time seeing their equipment. There are videos on YouTube of the CFNR in the upper part of the Central Valley, north of Sacramento.
