One of Santa Maria Valley's 70-tonners switches at Betteravia.

One of the few remaining operable GE 70-tonners is sole power on SMV's "Town Job". After protecting the malfunctioning crossing, the train slowly continues to it's destination of Santa M... (more)

The SMV Town Job heads towards Santa Maria on the day after the 4th of July holiday with a nice GE 70-ton for power.

Working their interchange with SP these units were uncommon in those days and extremely scarce today. Man, it's flat here!.

Working the interchange is one fine combination of locomotives, one with a air whistle and one with a horn. That way I guess you can tell whether you are coming or going.