Скачать или смотреть CSX 5107 (The W. Thomas Rice Special) Commemorative Locomotive in Southern California!

A few weeks back, I went up for the day to the Colton area, for some railfanning with a few friends. We were waiting at Pepper Ave, for a CSX leader, leading a stack train to LATC. The locomotive which was leading, was CSXT #5107, not just any ordinary CSX locomotive! This unit, was the commemorative W. Thomas Rice Special locomotive.

However, this unit didn't take the Alhambra sub, like we originally thought. It was to take the LA Sub, via the Mount Vernon Connector track, which is located at the Colton Diamonds, and via the BNSF San Bernardino Sub to Riverside Junction. When we heard this, we raced over to Grand Terrace, where we saw it sitting, waiting for permission to enter the BNSF SB Sub, which Union Pacific has trackage rights for. We then re located to a hill, where we meet up with another friend, to see the train. I also included some shots of Union Pacific power moves, and stack trains at the Pepper Ave. overpass.

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Wikipedia information about W. Thomas Rice:

W. Thomas Rice Rice was born in 1912 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. His career started as a track inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1934, after graduating at the top of his civil engineering class at Virginia Tech. By 1955, he became president of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. In 1957, he was made president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, succeeding Champ Davis. By 1967, he was named president, director and CEO of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, the product of merging the ACL with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Rice rose to chairman of SCL parent Seaboard Coast Line Industries, and the Family Lines System which included SCL. In 1980, Rice and Hays T. Watkins guided the creation of CSX Corporation by merging the Chessie System and the SCL. After the merger was complete, he was named chairman emeritus of CSX.