September’s slide and negative scanning kept me going into early October with still more old train pictures. These old Southern Pacific photos turned out to be a real hit with the railfans on Instagram. If I would have had more forethought I would have taken even more photos of the railroads that would soon be absorbed into the Union Pacific. But it wasn’t all trains – I also had a couple from when fire engines from all over the state came to town to fight the 1992 Highway 41 Fire and some old pictures from San Francisco.
Also new is a photo of the NEOWISE comet as seen from my front yard.
I have some more new photos of railroading on the Tehachapi Mountains that I uploaded in October, and you can see those in my post “Featured Collection: Trains at Tehachapi Pass“.

!["Fire Engine Red" [American LaFrance Fire Engine in Morro Bay, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Fire-Engine-Red_DxO-blog-600x400.jpg)

!["Apparatus" [Fire Engines in Morro Bay, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Apparatus_DxO-blog-439x600.jpg)
!["Haulin' a Whole Lot o' Nothin'" [Southern Pacific SD40R Locomotive in San Luis Obispo, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Haulin-a-Whole-Lot-o-Nothin_DxO-blog-600x400.jpg)
!["A Long Way From Home" [CSX SD40-2 & Southern Pacific SD40T-2 in San Luis Obispo, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Long-Way-From-Home_DxO-blog-1-600x400.jpg)
!["Double-Stacks" [Intermodal Train in San Luis Obispo, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Double-Stacks_DxO-blog-600x400.jpg)
!["Consolidation" [CSX Transportation SD40-2 Locomotive in San Luis Obispo, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Long-Way-From-Home_DxO-blog-600x400.jpg)
!["Twins" [GP38-3 in Roseville, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Twins_DxO-blog-600x400.jpg)
!["Roseville Shops" [Southern Pacific SD40R Locomotive in Roseville, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Roseville-Shops_DxO-blog-600x400.jpg)
!["3,000 Horses" [Southern Pacific SD40M-2 Locomotive in San Luis Obispo, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/3000-Horses_DxO_1-blog-400x600.jpg)
!["Super Chief" [Santa Fe EMD F7 at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Super-Chief_DxO-blog-400x600.jpg)
!["Checking the Oil" [Southern Pacific 2472 Vanderbilt Tender in San Luis Obispo, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Checking-the-Oil_DxO-blog-600x400.jpg)
!["Plumbing Problems" [Vaillancourt Fountain in San Francisco, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Plumbing-Problems_DxO-blog-400x600.jpg)
!["Attack of the Tree People" [Mid-Century Modem House in San Francisco, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/Attack-of-the-Tree-People-normal-blog-400x600.jpg)
!["'Hey Look! There's a Comet On the TV!'" [Neowise Comet from Templeton, California]](https://www.dvtwist.com/wp-content/uploads/20200723225434-D7200A_15217_DxO-blog-400x600.jpg)