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In 1972, we see two SD9s pulling 6400 tons of coal southbound through Shippensport, Pennsylvania, averaging a speed of just 8 miles per hour, as they just got started out of a siding.
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I really like these old pictures,

They remind me so much of what I saw when I was growing up, SP and UP where my favorite Roads , before the merge of course, I would joke with folks, and say, I'd be happy to go give those poor old SP Units and a wash and paint touch up here and there, and I would promise, they don't don't even have to pay me........I just couldn't understand how a Railroad could let there stuff go out that dirty on the Road......:(

But that was 50 yrs ago, that was then, and this is now, older and wiser to what really caused this.......;)

:udrool: Thanks for sharing your great pictures all, and thank you to the creators for some knock out routes, waiting to by the one coming up on JR Site.........

:D Eagle River :mop:, got to get my piggy bank and see how many pennies I have and then ask my Uncle to help me borrow some from him or work off the rest mowing his lawns........

Have a great day all, you sure made mine today..............
 


CLW pigtrain TV23 (Chicago IL to Omaha NE) sits loaded on track 1, ready to depart for Nebraska with UP GP60 1998, SOO SD40-2 767, and SSW B40-8 8068.

The train was built at IMX Yard, the CLW IC and SLRR shared assets ramp just southwest of downtown Chicago, right off I-55 at Ashland Ave.


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As the sun sets on the Coast Line Route curve, we see a south bound empty oil can consist passing the slide detector fence.



Approaching the north bound slide detector signal on the Coast Line curve
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