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(cartoon art version)
Southern California Railway Museum
Perris, CA
07-24-21
People are always commenting that my HDR images "look like paintings." Well, using some edge defining filters and layering them into the Photoshop document, an image can look like a line drawings to.
I did three versions of this one before I was satisfied.
8º VÔO DE APOIO À OPERAÇÃO ANTÁRTICA XXVI - SCRM TENIENTE RODOLFO MARSH MARTIN
- 01 A 06 JUNHO DE 2008
Southern California Railway Museum
Perris, CA
07-24-21
1921 Union Pacific ALCo 2-8-2 Mikado locomotive acquired by the museum in 1996. I've added the oil paint and poster edges filters at different opacities to separate layers and stacked them on top of a monochrome treatment of the color HDR photo.
Southern California Railway Museum
Perris, CA
07-24-21
1921 Union Pacific ALCo 2-8-2 Mikado locomotive acquired by the museum in 1996.
A monochrome art version of this photo was posted previously.
Southern California Railway Museum
Perris, CA
07-24-21
Southern Pacific Switcher 1006, an EMC SW-1 Switcher manufactured between 1939-1986.
Basking in the sun on a beautifully warm morning is Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway SD45-2 #5704, fresh out of the paint booth at Mid-America Car.
This locomotive was built 5-1973 at EMD LaGrange, IL with a builder and frame number of 72642-18, delivered in the blue and yellow warbonnet scheme. 5700-5704 were repainted at San Bernardino in January 1976 into this paint scheme commemorating the American Bicentennial that year. The Santa Fe had the largest Bicentennial locomotive fleet of all major U.S. railroads. These units saw service on priority freights and supported the American Freedom Train when it was operating on the ATSF.
After the nationwide festivities, it reverted back to standard Santa Fe paint on 6-15-1978, and was overhauled as an SD45-2u in September 1986 at the San Bernardino shops becoming ATSF 5834. It was assigned to MK maintenance in 4-1994. The unit passed to BNSF Railway with the merger in 1995, and was renumbered BNSF 6484 on 1-31-2000.
In storage pending retirement the unit was renumbered GN 6484 in 2013, and stored in various locations around the system including Temple, TX and Topeka, KS. The unit was moved for scrap, getting as far as Memphis, TN and was literally in the deadline a day from being cut up when it was given a reprieve and donated to the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, CA.
Soon the locomotive will be moved to California by BNSF, and mechanically restored to operation at the SCRM, replacing electrical components and returning the diesel prime mover to service. Many of the skilled volunteers at the museum are former Santa Fe employees from the San Bernardino shops that worked on the 90 SD45-2's that Santa Fe once rostered.
Thanks to everyone at BNSF Railway, Mid-America Car in Kansas City, Sherwin-Williams Paint, Eagle Graphics in Wichita, KS and Class-One Model Works for donating the locomotive, time, labor, paint, decals, and design work to the project.
Growing up the bicentennial was a recent enough memory for a lot of people that its commemoration was commonly referenced. My grandparents had all kinds of stuff around with the star logo. The insignias developed for the occasion were still evident in some unlikely places. My elementary school was one of those. I used to look for bicentennial quarters in my change and collected them. It was a fascinating period in American patriotism, and it's amazing how many railroads went out of their way to honor it in such eye-catching representations on locomotives and railcars.
The ATSF Bicentennial scheme has always been in my top 5 list, probably second to the Mo-Pac's, but I'm biased since that was my hometown road. I've gotten to see the N&W 1776 in Roanoke, the SD45 restored to its own bicentennial paint by the Virginia Museum of Transportation. I never imagined I'd ever lay eyes on one of these, even a year ago when I shoved it into the 3000 Yard at Argentine on a pilot-herder job in 2021.
I already knew at the time what was in store, and it was hard to keep a secret. As I looked up at the informational placard taped to the front window while tying the handbrake, I couldn't help laugh to myself thinking about what the future held for weather beaten "GN 6484". This was especially after seeing it earlier that day at the DSF, thinking how funny it would be if we had to go take it somewhere. Turns out, that was our next move.
The 5704 is simply an outstanding looking locomotive. Thank you to all of those that worked hard to get it done, and thank you for letting me drop by that morning to have a look.
Locomotive: ATSF 5704
3-1-22
Kansas City, MO
Southern California Railway Museum
Perris, CA
07-24-21
6 image HDR handheld focus stack, manually processed in Photoshop CC.
In 2015, a South Carolina Railroad Museum brings a short train of passengers to a stop jusst short of Highway 321 in Winnsboro. Back in those days,crew members had to walk ahead of the train and flag this crossing.
The battle with kudzu was real back then. Kudzu is a group of climbing, coiling, and trailing deciduous perennial vines native to much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and some Pacific islands, but invasive in many parts of the world, primarily southeast America. The evil wed densely climbs over other plants and trees and grows so rapidly that it smothers and kills them by blocking most of the sunlight and taking root space.
South Carolina Railroad Museum is an all-volunteer grss roots effort to showcase the history of trains and railroading in the Palmetto State.
Southern California Railway Museum
Perris, CA
01-19-2013
Processed: 09/13/25
A newly enlarged, enhanced, and processed photo of one of my favorite train engines, the 1953 GM Electro Motive diesel engine at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, photographed right after a complete restoration lasting a year restored her to her former glory.
From the SCRM website: Union Pacific E8 942 in service. She and her sisters were used on famous passenger trains such as the City of Los Angeles. U.P. 942 was built in 1953 by the Electro Motive Division of GM (EMD) and used by the Union Pacific until 1972. These locomotives had two diesel engines (known as prime movers) rated at 1125 h.p. each.
I've combined two images taken with my old Sony DSC-W55 and utilized my tool kit of computer processing programs to enlarge, sharpen and add HDR.
The last two times I visited the museum, the engine was not on display. I was able to photograph it in a car barn the last time I made a visit, but it was flanked by other trains, and I couldn't get a good angle. This is the best angle available in all my photos of her.
BNSF 131 and sisters shove AT&SF 5704 and Coaster (SDNR) 2105 into Perris, CA on May 3, 2025 on Metrolink's Perris Valley Subdivision. The duo was brought out from storage at BNSF's Hobart diesel service facility to their new home at the Southern California Railway Museum.
In the Summer of 1997, Orange Empire Railway Museum (now SCRM) completed its purchase of UP E8 942 (former CNW / Metra 510) and it was moved via SP from Colton to Los Angeles to have a traction motor reinstalled at the Metrolink shops. It had received a "quickie" yellow paint job to make it look a bit more presentable, applied with Home Depot paint and rollers at the scrap yard where it had been in storage for several years. It's seen here in the old SP Taylor Yard complex, which it passed through on the way to the Metrolink facility next door.
Today the SP Taylor Yard complex is completely gone, but happily 942 is fully restored and operational at the museum.
Back in October, 2007 Orange Empire Railway Museum provided a steam locomotive and train for the movie "The Changeling". Here's the Ventura County No. 2 (temporarily renumbered) on the end of the consist heading down the Box Springs grade to San Bernardino via BNSF.
In April, 2020, I shot the GN 6484 in a cut of engines that had been pulled from storage, and on their way to scrap. Fortunately, some well-connected people who knew the history of the 6484 stepped in, and the unit was saved from the torch.
Moving beyond that, the unit is currently at Kansas City's MAC receiving a THOROUGH cosmetic restoration to its early (but not as-built) "Bicentennial" appearance.
More info can be found here:
www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/southern-califo...
British Columbia Electric 1225 at OERM in Perris CA back in 1989, now repatriated to Vancouver and restored and operated by the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society www.fvhrs.org/
One of my fave museum locos- UP 942, SCRM, Perris CA. Was CNW 510 in Chicago for many years after being sold by UP, eventually migrated back out West.
Former SP S4 #1474 was used to place the 5704 and 2105 by the museum depot for display. It's almost as if the ALCo is saying to the big EMD, welcome to your new home.
Finally got back out to SCRM (formerly OERM) at Perris yesterday to see what they've been up to. This two-car Blimp train was working the mainline.Seen here changing ends at the south end of A Street- the last of the open land around the museum.
An ATSF boxcar sits unused in the dry heat of southern California
Southern California Railway Museum - Perris, Ca
Orange Empire Railway Museum provided a steam locomotive and train for the movie "The Changeling". Here's the Ventura County No. 2 (temporarily renumbered) at the San Bernardino depot. October, 2007.
"Run 5", KCS train Y-KC105-12, has pulled the ATSF SD45-2 No. 5704 from Mid-America Car this morning. They'll move over to the 10 Rail at East Yard in Knoche, and "Run 20" will take it over to the BNSF at Argentine later this afternoon. The 5704 looks as great as it did when it first received it's Bicentennial paint scheme 46 years ago.
Built in May of 1973 at LaGrange, IL, this was originally delievered in the standard yellow and blue "yellowbonnet" paint scheme. In January of 1976, this was one of five SD45-2's (5700-5704) that were painted at San Bernardino, CA in a special paint scheme to commemorate America's Bicentennial that same year. While wearing this scheme, these five units were found on high priority freights including the "Super C" and helped with the American Freedom Train while it ran on Santa Fe rails.
The 5704 was repainted back to the "Yellowbonnet" scheme in 1978 and rebuilt to an SD45-2u at San Bernardino in 1986, where it was renumbered to 5834. After the merger with BN in 1995, it eventually became BNSF No. 6484 in 2000, and while in storage pending retirement, it became GN No. 6484.
Eventually, it was slated for scrap, and it actually made it all the way to Memphis, TN where it was pulled from the deadline literally one day from being scrapped.
Why was it saved? Due to the efforts of a few determined people, the former ATSF No. 5704 had been donated to the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, CA. Now that the 5704 was been repainted in its former Bicentennial paint scheme, BNSF will soon move this California where the SCRM, where many of their volunteers worked on Santa Fe's SD45-2's at the San Bernardino shops, will have this restored to operation.
Thanks to BNSF for donating the locomotive, and a big thank you to Mid-America Car, Sherwin-Williams Paint, Eagle Graphics and Class-One Model Works for all their time and effort. It was literally unbelievable to see this in person, especially after growing up seeing dozens of photos of Santa Fe's Bicentennial fleet.
Being born 20 years too late for the American Bicentennial, I always wished I had been able to see one of these in person as I believe Santa Fe had the best Bicentennial scheme out of all the U.S. railroads. This is truly a sight to behold, and I can't thank everyone enough for time and labor put into this project.
Over a year and a half ago, I shot this in roughly the same spot when it was the GN No. 6484, not entirely knowing what the plans were for it. Seeing it emerge from Mid-America Car in its restored Bicentennial paint scheme seemed like a far-fetched idea at the time, but amazingly, that's exactly what has happened. 3/11/22.
Ventura County No. 2 at work at the OERM Rail Festival, April 1994. About to cross San Jacinto Ave., moving into position in the morning for its runs north out of the Perris depot. "Santa Fe" can still be seen painted on the old wooden crossbucks. Today this is a Metrolink commuter rail station.
A Rio Grande flat sits in front of the Grizzly Flatts Narrow Gauge center at SCRM
Southern California Railway Museum - Perris, Ca
July 2007 flashback- Fresno Traction (later PE) double-truck Birney makes a rare appearance outside of the carbarn during a big switch move. Sacramento Northern electric loco 653 provides the muscle.
Finally got back out to SCRM (formerly OERM) at Perris yesterday to see what they've been up to. This two-car Blimp train was working the mainline.
Los Angeles Railway 9350 Line Car at OERM, Perris CA (now SCRM) during an antique truck meet some years ago.
Pacific Electric "Blimp" 314 and PE electric freight locomotive 1624. Orange Empire Railway Museum (now SCRM), Perris CA. Note the interesting trackage- double slip switch in front of 314 (from the PE 6th & Main station downtown) and dual-gauge trackage at right.
The three GP60M's of BNSF R-CAL9021-03A have cut away after shoving 5704 and 2105 onto temporary trackage for the hand-off. SCRM's former SP U25BE 3100 was used to power the train of idler cars to reach the pair and take them down to the museum. The temporary track was installed that morning and removed after the locomotives were safely on museum trackage.
Short video of Union Pacific E-8 942 pulling a train on the SCRM (formerly OERM) mainline in Perris, CA. this morning. Built for UP, 942 spent a good bit of its career hauling commuter trains in Chicago as CNW (later Metra) 510.
Southern California Railway Museum
Perris, CA
07-24-21
This 1881 Baldwin 2-6-0 Mogul locomotive has a storied history. It's a narrow gauge locomotive which ran on the Nevada Central Railroad and was ready for the scrap heap in 1938 when the railroad closed. In the 40s it was purchased and restored by Ward Kimball, the famous Disney animator for his private railroad.
In 1992 Ward and his wife Betty donated the train to the museum.
The museum is restoring the train, which includes the tender and passenger car.
Scaled down versions of these narrow gauge trains are what run around the exterior of Disneyland to this day.
The Yard job with the task of spinning P85's train crossing Whaley Street and acts as the barrier between both sides of Sumter Street. The City of Columbia can be seen in the background.
The bi-level passenger cars are for the South Carolina Railroad Museum.
Der Hochzeitexpress von einem bekannten Schweizer Eisenbahnfotografen ist von Wohlen AG auf dem Weg nach Sihlwald und konnte bei einem kurzem Fotohalt bei Oberrütti aufgenommen werden. Der Zug bestand aus der Re 456 091, einem SBB Salonwagen und 3 SCRM und hinten die Re 620 028 "Konfolfingen". Für diese Fahrt bekamm die Re 620 noch auf beiden Seiten das Wappen der Gemeinde "Möhlin",
Orange Empire Railway Museum (SCRM) excursion to Hemet from Perris, Ventura County No 2. Way back in October 1996. Seen here passing under the 215 freeway- today the old Santa Fe San Jac branch is Metrolink commuter rail.
Came a cross a few more photos I took of Butte, Anaconda & Pacific wooden boxcar 22 at Orange Empire Railway Museum (SCRM) in Perris CA back in 2009. It's being pulled by USAF 7441, a 45-tonner that was once assigned to nearby March AFB. The H&N Electric loco is alongside in this view.
Somehow several of these wooden boxcars remained on the property at the BA&P, complete with their original (and quite ancient) Fox trucks, until 2009. Note also the pressed steel underframe.
It was later repainted, but I never saw it outside to take pictures after that happened.
Southern California Railway Museum
Perris, California
Camera: Fujifilm DL-Tele 35mm
Film: Lomography Color 35mm ISO 100
July 2007 flashback- Bamberger Railroad Brill "Bullet" interurban 127 at Orange Empire Railway Museum (now SCRM). Taken during a switch move after finishing the trucks for the car.
One of five built in 1932 for the Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville in New York state, resold 1937 to the Bamberger for operation between Salt Lake City and Ogden. Retired 1952 and converted to farm worker housing in Layton Utah, it was rescued by the museum in 1971.
Still missing at the time of these July 2007 photos were the aluminum skirts along the side and the numbers, since applied.
On Saturday, September 7, 2019, the SCRM in Perris, California held the second swap meet for 2019. They also had restored UP E8A 942 out for a "Run One" event. This is where you can be the engineer for an hour. Prices vary depending on the equipment requested. This day there were two individuals who requested the E8. It was later used as power for the train rides offered during the day. I was hoping for SFe FP45 #108 to be out, or the recently restored SP SW1 #1006, as I have previous encounters with UP 842 there at the museum. But, it was 842 and it looked and sounded great, just like it has for the past seven or so years. Here we go!