Southern Pacific Train 52, the San Joaquin Daylight, is led by an A-B-A set of F7s at Richmond, CA in the 1960s. The train is about to pass under my father's vantage point, the Santa Fe bridge. ... (more)

Four SP F7 units are struggling with mostly lumber tonnage up the 1.8 percent grade at McCredie Springs trying to reach the Cascade summit and on to Calif.