. . . forty years ago, the sun was setting in the west looking down Santa Fe's Third District main line at Hobart Tower, in Los Angeles, CA, as a Hobart Yard switch job “cabs off" a longer than normal empty piggyback, or "baretable" train, that, because of it's length, was built using the South main. Except for the length, this was a normal weekly occurance. It always amazed me that an empty train would leave both Chicago and Los Angeles every Monday, running the length of the entire system passing somewhere in Kansas. Even back then, they were experimenting with extra long trains as this one extended from Hobart Tower all the way to Eastern Ave, well over ten thousand feet. With nearly a couple hundred feet of slack, not sure I would have enjoyed riding this cab.
Joe Blackwell via Trainorders.com