Trains on this day in the past:

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On October 22, 1983, the Pacific Railroad Society ran an excursion with Amtrak equipment that was the first (and possibly the only) passenger train to run on the SP Palmdale-Colton Cutoff. Here it is before leaving LA Union Station:

   

The SP added an SD40 helper at West Colton:

   

Here it is at Route 138:

   

You can see that it was a very long train and needed the helper! Here it is at Mormon Rocks:

   

Here the helper is coming off at Hiland (SP station at Summit):