I live alone with my cats, I don't have to say anything! Warbonnet, I got to stand 10 feet (off the ballast) and watch the warbonnet "F" units roar by, and the GP 7 and Nines. Occasionally before 1960 I would see 2-10-2's sometimes occasionally 2-8-2's with diesels behind them. Not very often though. Fantastic stuff. I started young. I remember the Blue Ft, F3's and the Warbonnet F7's on passenger trains. Sometimes there would be 4 sections of the Superchief, every 15 minutes another section would roar by.
Our house was only about 25 feet off the ballast. Quite a sight. 25 years later I'd stop in Irwindale and watch a pair of beautiful blue and yellow GP-30's work the Miller Brewery yard, great stuff really handsome locomotives. Now that mainline is 30 miles to the East in a whole different state. Sometimes I see them when I drive.