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Poking around North Salt Lake City with my dad while coming back from a family outing to Lagoon Amusement park on July 3, 1974, I photographed a pair of DDA40X's trailing an SD40-2 and U30C on a westbound auto train--one of my first Centennial encounters.
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First Experience with the DDA40X: Peterson, UT, July 8, 1974]
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Pair of Centennials on a pig train at Riverdale, Utah, February 1, 1975
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Grab shot at Emory, UT, September 27, 1975 on a day out with my dad.
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Fantastic day, April 20, 1979. Chasing UP's Old Timers Special with E-units and it goes into the hole at Motanic to meet UP's SPX with a "fast forty" set.
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Hottest train on the LA run in the late 1970s, LAX wheels around the curve above the Great Salt Lake near Erda, Utah, on June 19, 1979. The fleet had a year left before storage..
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Westbound 6945 nearing Hermiston, Oregon, March 1984, shortly after half the fleet was reactivated to service.
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A beautiful clear morning at Motanic, Oregon, and 6930 leads ASPX eastbound down the Blue Mountain grade. June 14, 1984.
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DDA40X 6930, Motanic, OR June14,1984.Believe this one is preserved at IRM in Illinois.
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Roaring out of the Snake River valley, 6922 power ASPX at Ticeska, Idaho,June 23, 1984.
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6945 leads a westbound drag freight over the top of Medbury Hill at Reverse, Idaho, on June 28, 1984.
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Bigs and Smalls: 6945 and two locally-assigned GP38-2's, each possessing only 1/3 the horsepower of the big Jack, at Reverse, Idaho, June 28, 1984.
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SEAP descends Blue Mountains, Pelican Canyon, w. of Hilgard, OR July 29, 1984.
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July 29, 1984: Eastbound Hot Lake, OR
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Eastbound SEAP piggyback train, Telocaset, OR July 29, 1984
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Eastbound at approach to North Powder, OR, SEAP intermodal train. July 29, 1984
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SEAP flies through Haines, Oregon, July 29, 1984.
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Muscling toward the summit at Encina, east of Baker, Oregon, July 29, 1984.
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Entering the horseshoe curve, Leonard, Oregon, July 29, 1984.
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SEAP near Huntington, OR, July 29, 1984
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Eastbound, Kamela, OR, August 19,1984
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Doublestack era begins: SEAP descends grade at Motanic, OR August 19, 1984.
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6930/6912, 72mph at Hot Lake, Oregon, August 19, 1984 on the SEAP.
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SEAP eastbound with double jacks, Telocaset, OR, August 19, 1984.
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SEAP near Lime, Oregon, August 19, 1984
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Dual jacks lead SEAP stack train at Lime, Oregon, August 19, 1984.
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6927 leads FTX downgrade in Pelican Canyon above Hilgard, Oregon, August 19, 1984.
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Starting the day off right! 6905 leads westbound above near Lime, Oregon on August 26, 1984. This train would be followed to Meacham, where it would meet a Centennial-led grain empty east we'd follow back til the sunlight ran out--a full day shooting Cent
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Giants meet at the top of the Blue Mountains, Meacham Oregon, on August 26, 1984.
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Grain empty eastbound at east Hilgarde, Oregon, August 26, 1984.
