Loop Job - 1
The "Loop Job" aka Redlands Loop Job works on the last day of 1979. Freshly outshopped GP20 3051 has the duty for the day working the remnants of the Redlands Branch. When this was taken the branch still extended beyond Redlands up to Mentone. At one time it went beyond Mentone north to Highland and headed back west to make a connection with the mainline in the northern part of San Bernardino. Thus it made a loop back to San Bernardino, hence the name. It also had the nickname of the "kite shaped track" due to the vague shape of a kite the branch portrayed on a map.
Loop Job - 1
The "Loop Job" aka Redlands Loop Job works on the last day of 1979. Freshly outshopped GP20 3051 has the duty for the day working the remnants of the Redlands Branch. When this was taken the branch still extended beyond Redlands up to Mentone. At one time it went beyond Mentone north to Highland and headed back west to make a connection with the mainline in the northern part of San Bernardino. Thus it made a loop back to San Bernardino, hence the name. It also had the nickname of the "kite shaped track" due to the vague shape of a kite the branch portrayed on a map.