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| Title: |
Classic power |
| Description: |
A UP SD40-2 leads an SP tunnel motor in a scene that coulld have been from the 1970s |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/2001 Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:11:21 AM |
| Location: |
Hershey, NE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
() SP 5352(SD40T-2) |
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744 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Stack with an SP unit |
| Description: |
SPs big power mostly went to the coal trains, but the other units could show up anywhere, as this tunnel motor on a stack train |
| Photo Date: |
5/27/2000 Upload Date: 2/6/2014 2:16:41 AM |
| Location: |
Cozad, NE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 6278(SD60M) SP 5397(SD40T-2) UP 3908(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
776 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
EL Paso bound |
| Description: |
A mix of power in a "we ain't mad at nobody" consist rolls toward El Paso on the Golden State route. |
| Photo Date: |
9/21/1997 Upload Date: 3/19/2014 2:04:01 AM |
| Location: |
Santa Rosa, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 3030(SD40-2) CNW 5516(GP40) SP 8377(SD40T-2) CR 6262(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
1270 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Piece of the Rock |
| Description: |
Just before the Rock Island went under in 1980, SP acquired the Golden State Route east of Santa Rosa NM, where ownership had changed from SP to Rock island. Along with that, they got RI's trackage rights into Kansas City over UP from Topeka. Heres one of the SPs trains on Rock Island trackage rights on the last leg into KC behind a trio of tunnel motors. |
| Photo Date: |
2/19/1986 Upload Date: 11/10/2014 2:35:02 AM |
| Location: |
Bonner Springs, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8493(SD40T-2) |
| Views: |
463 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Looking like the old days |
| Description: |
A westbound with a solid set of SP power rolls west on the Golden State Route. I was just a little too late to catch it going out of the Samson of the Plains bridge, just out of the photo to the right. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1997 Upload Date: 3/25/2014 12:54:06 AM |
| Location: |
Liberal, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 9606(GP60) SP 8512(SD40T-2) SSW 9708(GP60) |
| Views: |
788 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Great leader |
| Description: |
At the time of this photo, it was still possible to see a pretty good variety of predecessor road power on UP. Heres one such, a CNW unit leading an SP unit on an eastbound. |
| Photo Date: |
5/27/2000 Upload Date: 2/6/2014 1:44:52 AM |
| Location: |
Cozad, NE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 6925(SD40-2) SP 8521(SD40T-2) |
| Views: |
708 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP too |
| Description: |
The racetrack became an interesting place to watch the action, as besides CN, SP also had trackage rights for a couple of trains per day to Kansas City. Heres one of them, behind a mix of classic SP power. |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/1996 Upload Date: 7/31/2014 3:34:25 AM |
| Location: |
Berwyn, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8526(SD40T-2) SP 9330(SD45T-2) SP 7542(SD45R) SP 9313(SD45T-2) |
| Views: |
1436 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Climbing |
| Description: |
a northbound climbs toward Belden Tunnel at Moottown Rd. This was once the north end of Dyes Siding, as evidenced by the signal mast. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1998 Upload Date: 3/15/2014 2:02:44 AM |
| Location: |
Tunnel, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5628(SD40-2) CNW 8642(C44-9W) SP 8564(SD40T-2) |
| Views: |
766 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Unusual power on high |
| Description: |
A northbound CP train with a couple of western visitors rolls over the steel bridge at Harpusrville as my 9 year old son waves. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1998 Upload Date: 3/15/2014 2:09:09 AM |
| Location: |
Harpursville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5628(SD40-2) CNW 8642(C44-9W) SP 8564(SD40T-2) |
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703 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Colorful scene |
| Description: |
Northbound CP train rolls past some bright flowers, while the power adds some color of its own |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1998 Upload Date: 3/15/2014 2:07:18 AM |
| Location: |
Sanitaria Springs, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5628(SD40-2) CNW 8642(C44-9W) SP 8564(SD40T-2) |
| Views: |
828 Comments: 0 |
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