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Dates:1/1/1974 - 12/31/2007
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SP U33C 8636
Title:  SP U33C 8636
Description:  SP U33C 8636 on a westbound train at El Paso in January 1974
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 5/24/2014 1:22:24 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 8636(U33C)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
SP H-12-44 2391
Title:  SP H-12-44 2391
Description:  SP Fairbanks-Morse H-12-44 2391 working cars at El Paso
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 5/24/2014 1:21:54 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 2391(H-12-44)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
MP GP7 103
Title:  MP GP7 103
Description:  MP (with TP sublettering) GP7 103 idles by the El Paso yard office in December 1974. It's the former KO&G 807 and later became MP 1690.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 10/22/2010 2:39:37 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  MP 103(GP7)
Views:  491   Comments: 0
Santa Fe 2943 at El Paso
Title:  Santa Fe 2943 at El Paso
Description:  ATSF GP9 2943 sits by the El Paso roundhouse in 1974. It would be rebuilt by the road as 2248 and does not appear to have survived to the BNSF.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/5/2011 11:18:18 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2943(GP9)
Views:  1512   Comments: 6
Santa Fe train entering El Paso
Title:  Santa Fe train entering El Paso
Description:  Santa Fe SD39 4017 leads a train down from Belen as it enters El Paso in January 1974. 2300/2400 horsepower units predominated on the El Paso line during this period-today it was 4017 with SD24 4512 and SD39 4012.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 2/5/2011 11:18:39 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4017(SD39)
Views:  1035   Comments: 1
Gon loads you don't see every day
Title:  Gon loads you don't see every day
Description:  ATSF gon 76425 carries a pair of F7 roof sections to a scrap yard; the rest of these locomotives are undoubtedly being converted to CF7s at Cleburne
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 10/4/2008 10:44:43 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  414   Comments: 0
SP U30C 7911
Title:  SP U30C 7911
Description:  SP U30C 7911 on a westbound freight at El Paso
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 6/21/2015 9:03:25 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 7911(U30C)
Views:  236   Comments: 0
SSW 6517 in El Paso
Title:  SSW 6517 in El Paso
Description:  Cotton Belt GP35 6517 in El Paso
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 6/21/2015 9:04:00 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SSW 6517(GP35)
Views:  221   Comments: 0
SP U33C 8645
Title:  SP U33C 8645
Description:  SP U33C 8645 leading a westbound past El Paso Union Station
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 6/21/2015 9:04:22 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 8645(U33C)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
SP SD7 1413
Title:  SP SD7 1413
Description:  Southern Pacific SD7 1413 is working as a heavy switcher at El Paso in January 1974; it's just retrieved a cut of cars from the MP yard and is returning to Cotton Street. 1413 was on the third of its four numbers on SP, being built as 5292, then holding 2713, 1413 and, finally, 1500.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 10:32:00 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 1413(SD7)
Views:  3307   Comments: 3
SP Freight in El Paso
Title:  SP Freight in El Paso
Description:  Four units bring an eastbound ESPEE freight past Union Station; U33C 8778 is followed by a GP35, GP20 and U33C set.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 6/26/2009 6:41:25 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 8778(U33C)
Views:  455   Comments: 0
FM In Texas
Title:  FM In Texas
Description:  During the early 1970s the railfan press spent a lot of ink (and rightfully so) on the SP's Fairbanks Morse fleet in the San Francisco Bay area. The road also had a small OP outpost in El Paso and Tucscon during the same timeframe that didn't seem to get as much attention. 2394 was one of the West Texas FMs- it's shown in the Cotton Street Yard in Jan 1974.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 9/19/2009 7:09:01 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 2394(H-12-44)
Views:  1389   Comments: 3
Whiskers
Title:  Whiskers
Description:  Three FM H-12-44s and an SD45 sit on the turntable whiskers at El Paso in Jan 1974.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 1/24/2008 7:55:30 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2355(H-12-44)
Views:  561   Comments: 0
On the Santa Fe ready track
Title:  On the Santa Fe ready track
Description:  Santa Fe GP9 2923 sits on the ready track at El Paso in Jan 1974 with a sister not far behind. The paint scheme may be recent but the rest of the scene- the black water tower with herald and sand house- go back many years. As for 2923, it would be rebuilt into a GP9U in 1978-79 and retired prior to the BNSF merger.
Photo Date:  1/26/1974  Upload Date: 3/10/2008 7:52:40 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2923(GP9)
Views:  1202   Comments: 1
Anthony Local
Title:  Anthony Local
Description:  Santa Fe's Anthony (Texas) local sits with its caboose prior to a day of working the local industries.
Photo Date:  3/13/1974  Upload Date: 8/7/2010 8:34:04 AM
Location:  Anthony, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4010(SD39)
Views:  787   Comments: 1
SP FP7 6458
Title:  SP FP7 6458
Description:  Southern Pacific FP7 6458 on Amtrak's Sunset Limited in El Paso
Photo Date:  3/13/1974  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 8:03:42 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 6458(FP7A)
Views:  656   Comments: 0
Where FMs go to die
Title:  Where FMs go to die
Description:  When the SP decided to scrap their El Paso FMs they sent a number to MPI at Anthony Texas. Parts of H-12-44s 2389 and 2392 are shown here.
Photo Date:  3/13/1974  Upload Date: 1/24/2008 7:59:46 PM
Location:  Anthony, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  458   Comments: 0
Amtrak 161
Title:  Amtrak 161
Description:  Amtrak F7B 161, the former SP 8291, at El Paso in April 1974 on the Sunset Limited.
Photo Date:  4/13/1974  Upload Date: 5/25/2008 9:40:16 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  AMTK 161(F7B)
Views:  1198   Comments: 0
Rock Island GP35 311 at Amarillo
Title:  Rock Island GP35 311 at Amarillo
Description:  Rock Island GP35 sits by the Amarillo engine house in 1974
Photo Date:  5/10/1974  Upload Date: 2/5/2011 11:17:26 AM
Location:  Amarillo, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CRIP 311(GP35)
Views:  1124   Comments: 2
Rock Island F9B
Title:  Rock Island F9B
Description:  RI F9B 4108 sits at the Amarillo sand tower in July 1974. This is one of the former UP units the road acquired in the 1970s that were originally built from F3s and sent back to EMD where they emerged as F9s. UP considered them F9s not "F9BM".
Photo Date:  7/13/1974  Upload Date: 4/27/2008 11:15:03 AM
Location:  Amarillo, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CRIP 4108(F9B)
Views:  848   Comments: 1
Santa Fe CF7s and a local
Title:  Santa Fe CF7s and a local
Description:  ATSF's publicity department would've been hard pressed to come up with a better scene than this for a local; two CF7s in matching paint, a freshly shopped 50ft boxcar and a cab. (that being said, the company accountants would probably view this as a good reason to discourage local service!)
Photo Date:  7/13/1974  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 9:12:36 PM
Location:  Canadian, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2553(CF7)
Views:  939   Comments: 0
ATSF GP7 2849
Title:  ATSF GP7 2849
Description:  Santa Fe GP7 2849 at Hereford TX
Photo Date:  8/18/1974  Upload Date: 8/7/2010 5:58:14 PM
Location:  Hereford, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 2849(GP7)
Views:  757   Comments: 2
MP SD40 3004
Title:  MP SD40 3004
Description:  At the end of the system, MP SD40 3004 rests at El Paso before returning east towards Ft Worth.
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 10/30/2010 9:37:32 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  MP 3004(SD40)
Views:  544   Comments: 1
MP SD40-2 3107
Title:  MP SD40-2 3107
Description:  MoPac SD40-2 3107 sits at the engine facility in El Paso TX in December of 1974
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 10/30/2010 9:39:02 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  MP 3107(SD40-2)
Views:  674   Comments: 0
MP SD40-2 3097
Title:  MP SD40-2 3097
Description:  MP SD40-2 3097 idles in the road's El Paso yard at the end of 1974.
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 6/25/2011 10:37:05 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  MP 3097(SD40-2)
Views:  368   Comments: 1
MP GP7  323
Title:  MP GP7 323
Description:  MP GP7 323 at El Paso TX in late 1974. Delivered as MP 4257, ended its career about 1980 as MP 1774.
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 6/25/2011 10:38:03 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  MP 323(GP7)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
MP GP7 328
Title:  MP GP7 328
Description:  An odd one- one of MP's very late GP7s, which were delivered in GP9 carbodies. Delivered as MP 4317, retired in 1779 in 1980. MP GP7 328 at El Paso in December 1974. A former passenger service unit, as denoted by the 'torpedo tubes'.
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 6/25/2011 10:37:26 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  MP 328(GP7)
Views:  379   Comments: 0
MP SD40 3004
Title:  MP SD40 3004
Description:  MP SD40 3004 at El Paso in a road set with four SD40-2s
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 9/16/2012 10:02:24 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 3004(SD40)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
Working El Paso
Title:  Working El Paso
Description:  SP H-12-44 2356 works a diesel fuel tank car at El Paso yard on a gloomy winter day in 1974. SP's "El Paso FMs" were at the end of their lives at this point; there were five in town this day- all would be retired within a few months.
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 1/10/2009 10:31:28 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 2356(H-12-44)
Views:  1375   Comments: 0
SP RSD12 2961
Title:  SP RSD12 2961
Description:  SP had a number of big Alcos working as switchers and transfer units in Houston and New Orleans through the early 1970s. in 1974 a number of them were moved to the Pacific Lines, ending up in places like Colton and Ogden. RSD12 2961 was one of three passing through El Paso in Dec 1974 during the transfer.
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 9/20/2009 9:29:18 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 2961(RSD12)
Views:  1501   Comments: 1
Santa Fe SD26 at Anthony
Title:  Santa Fe SD26 at Anthony
Description:  ATSF SD26 4661 sits with a caboose at Anthony TX between local duties in late December 1974
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 2/10/2012 9:27:24 PM
Location:  Anthony, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4661(SD26)
Views:  359   Comments: 2
MP/TP yard
Title:  MP/TP yard
Description:  At the end of the Texas Pacific the road had this yard; the office is to the left, engine facility to the right and there's a white car repair facility in the background. A GP7 can be seen switching a line of cars in the middle, just below the caboose track.
Photo Date:  12/30/1974  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:17:32 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  637   Comments: 0
MP Transfer in El Paso
Title:  MP Transfer in El Paso
Description:  An MP GP7 brings a transfer towards the SP yard in El Paso in 1975. 105 was a KO&G original and would be retired only about four months later, reportedly after suffering wreck damage.
Photo Date:  7/25/1975  Upload Date: 10/1/2013 4:06:08 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  MP 105(GP7)
Views:  543   Comments: 0
MP Eastbound Leaving El Paso
Title:  MP Eastbound Leaving El Paso
Description:  Four EMDs bring an eastbound MP train by a canal and out of El Paso in the summer of 1975. The tracks belong to SP and the train is approaching that road's Alfalfa Yard in the eastern part of the city. 3063 is followed by 3038, 3189 and 3114.
Photo Date:  7/26/1975  Upload Date: 10/1/2013 4:06:38 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  MP 3063(SD40)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
ATSF SD26 4654
Title:  ATSF SD26 4654
Description:  Santa Fe SD26 4654 at Anthony TX in the summer of 1975
Photo Date:  7/26/1975  Upload Date: 2/10/2012 9:27:43 PM
Location:  Anthony, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ATSF 4654(SD26)
Views:  954   Comments: 2
Not Much Longer with SP
Title:  Not Much Longer with SP
Description:  SP Fairbanks Morse H-12-44 2379 sits by the El Paso turntable in the summer of 1975. One of the last of SP's FMs located at El Paso; most of its mates are already at the scrapper up the road in Anthony.
Photo Date:  7/31/1975  Upload Date: 6/25/2011 10:35:14 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 2379(H-12-44)
Views:  430   Comments: 2
Three Makes on the SP
Title:  Three Makes on the SP
Description:  Three vastly different units sit on the turntable whiskers at El Paso in July 1975. FM H-12-44 2391 (with 2370 behind) will soon be retired. GE U33C 8633 and EMD GP9 3691 sits off beyond..
Photo Date:  7/31/1975  Upload Date: 6/25/2011 10:36:36 PM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 2391(H-12-44) SP 8633(U33C) SP 3691(GP9)
Views:  683   Comments: 1
SP SW1500 2509
Title:  SP SW1500 2509
Description:  SP SW1500 2509 at El Paso.
Photo Date:  7/31/1975  Upload Date: 6/21/2015 9:05:40 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 2509(SW1500)
Views:  206   Comments: 0
SP U25B 6759
Title:  SP U25B 6759
Description:  SP U25B 6759 at El Paso
Photo Date:  7/31/1975  Upload Date: 6/21/2015 9:06:01 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 6759(U25B)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
SP SD7 1425
Title:  SP SD7 1425
Description:  SP SD7 1425 at El Paso. A former dual-service unit with steam generator and still retaining a 'wagon wheel' radio antenna.
Photo Date:  7/31/1975  Upload Date: 8/4/2013 9:31:36 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 1425(SD7)
Views:  499   Comments: 0
SP SD45 8953
Title:  SP SD45 8953
Description:  SP SD45 8953, El Paso TX summer of 1975
Photo Date:  7/31/1975  Upload Date: 3/30/2013 10:11:16 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 8953(SD45)
Views:  518   Comments: 0
SP U33C 8731
Title:  SP U33C 8731
Description:  SP U33C 8731, El Paso July 1975
Photo Date:  7/31/1975  Upload Date: 3/30/2013 10:11:29 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 8731(U33C)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
SP U33C 8761
Title:  SP U33C 8761
Description:  SP U33C 8761, El Paso TX July 1975
Photo Date:  7/31/1975  Upload Date: 3/30/2013 10:11:43 AM
Location:  El Paso, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SP 8761(U33C)
Views:  210   Comments: 0
Frisco's End of the Line
Title:  Frisco's End of the Line
Description:  SLSF GP7 519 sits at the road's westernmost terminal, Quannah TX, in the summer of 1975 with caboose 1104. 519 went to EMD in trade in August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 1/31/2011 5:10:49 PM
Location:  Quanah, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SLSF 519(GP7)
Views:  389   Comments: 2
West Texas and the Frisco
Title:  West Texas and the Frisco
Description:  The Frisco never reached San Francisco but it did reach Quanah Texas with subsidiary Quanah Acme & Pacific running further west into the panhadle. In mid-August 1975 a pair of GP38-2s (436, 667) await a run back to Oklahoma while GP7 519 sits nearby.
Photo Date:  8/17/1975  Upload Date: 2/27/2008 6:47:57 AM
Location:  Quanah, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SLSF 436(GP38-2)
Views:  516   Comments: 1
Frisco Road Power in Quanah
Title:  Frisco Road Power in Quanah
Description:  Two Frisco units, 436 and 667, idle at Quanah TX. You can't get much further west on the Frisco system.
Photo Date:  8/18/1975  Upload Date: 7/17/2013 9:16:11 PM
Location:  Quanah, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SLSF 436(GP38-2)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
FW&D Shops
Title:  FW&D Shops
Description:  The Ft Worth & Denver's main shops were located roughly mid-road at Childress Texas. Although marked for the BN the road (as did sister Colorado & Southern) tried to act like independent roads at this time, keeping separate locomotive rosters and operations from their parent company. NW2 606 and SD7 812 sit here by the sand tower in the summer of 1975.
Photo Date:  8/18/1975  Upload Date: 4/6/2008 5:24:19 PM
Location:  Childress, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  FWD 606(NW2)
Views:  1079   Comments: 1
Santa Fe Local at Pampa
Title:  Santa Fe Local at Pampa
Description:  Two ATSF Geeps; GP7U 2062 and GP7 2688, head an eastbound local at Pampa Texas in 1976
Photo Date:  5/10/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2010 9:21:44 PM
Location:  Pampa, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2062(GP7u)
Views:  374   Comments: 1
ATSF GP7 2822
Title:  ATSF GP7 2822
Description:  Santa Fe GP7 2822 sits at Pampa Tx
Photo Date:  5/10/1976  Upload Date: 8/13/2010 9:21:59 PM
Location:  Pampa, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2822(GP7)
Views:  590   Comments: 0
FWD 609
Title:  FWD 609
Description:  BN (FW&D) SW1200 sits in the yard in Amarillo TX in May 1976. It would later be renumbered as BN 258.
Photo Date:  5/10/1976  Upload Date: 5/20/2009 7:58:23 PM
Location:  Amarillo, TX
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FWD 609(SW1200)
Views:  924   Comments: 1


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