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Classic power
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)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
Stack with an SP unit
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:  SP 5397(SD40T-2) UP 3908(SD40-2)
Views:  449   Comments: 1
EL Paso bound
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:  892   Comments: 1
Piece of the Rock
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:  233   Comments: 0
Looking like the old days
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)
Views:  475   Comments: 0
Great leader
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:  423   Comments: 1
SP too
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)
Views:  1054   Comments: 0
Climbing
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:  391   Comments: 0
Unusual power on high
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)
Views:  352   Comments: 0
Colorful scene
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:  453   Comments: 0


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