#spsf

SP and ATSF didn't bribe the Reagan administration sufficiently...

Looks like Union Pacific came up short and is getting the "shake down" from the big boy rn

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/rail-regulator-sends-71-5-billion-union-pacific-norfolk-southern-deal-back-for-redo-aebae6b8?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Trump47's FRA just killed the Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific merger. Dead.

(Oops, UP+NS 😬 maybe not!!???)

So much for "Make America 'Great' Again" —this will ultimately kill the biggest American railroad (UP) and nuke our domestic coal industry (as UP and NS separately will be forced to raise fees for shipping coal to cover rising costs due to Trumpflation).

(...all these specific companies and the industry broadly have been on Putin's bounty hitlist, if Trump can collect for killing it.)

IDK how to feel TBH was jazzed at the prospect of seeing mixed power for a while:

"Kodachromes on Parade"

Climbing the steep 2.2% Grade of Cajon Pass, Southern Pacific SD40T-2 No. 8568, SD45R No. 7557, and SD40T-2 No. 8538 lead an eastbound trailer train while displaying the distinctive "Kodachrome" livery of the aborted Southern Pacific-Santa Fe merger.

Came for the SPsf tunnelmotor at 80mph on the empty intermodals -- stayed for the Foster Farms Chicken ALCO

t's a cloudy April 17, 1971, a busy day on Tehachapi. SP 3207 is leading the northbound SAN JOAQUIN DAYLIGHT around the iconic loop at Walong, California. The Santa Fe units are off a southbound train left at Woodford, the next siding north. The AT&SF locomotives helped push a stalled northbound SP freight into the Walong siding to clear up for the DAYLIGHT. (You can spot the top of the SP caboose behind the four units.) As soon as the DAYLIGHT clears, the Santa Fe units will follow and couple to their train at Woodford.

It was a cloudy day, but because of all the action, it was one of my best trips to that popular piece of mountain railroading