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Heyday: Pomona, California (circa 1970's and 1980's)- Both the UP and SP had tracks that paralleled each other through town. SP tended to run more trains, with UP putting in an appearence now and then. I got to see lots of relatively clean SD45s, SD40T-2s, SD45T-2s, U33Cs, moving trains at a speed where it was easy to keep up with the trains, plus a one-time only sighting of a pair of Alco C415s with a bay window caboose in tow. The UP trains would come flying through town powered by SD40s, DD35As and DD35Bs, plus the celebrated DDA40X Centennials. There was an SP station that I recall visiting with my grandmother a few times before the station was closed, and there was some sort of local powered by a pair of SP GP9s. Nowadays: I left California in 1992 and moved to Utah, but at that time, the SP and UP were still separate railroads. The UP DD35s and DDA40Xs were long gone as were SP's U33Cs, and the GP9s were on their way out. However, there was still plenty of trains, and ideas of reopening the old SP depot for use as a commuter rail stop. Of course UP and SP are now one, and I wonder if that station was ever reopened.
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