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» Western Pacific (more..) » GE U23B (more..) |
» Roper Yard » South Salt Lake, Utah, USA (more..) » October 15, 1977 |
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» WP 2259 (more..) » West Local (more..) |
» James Belmont (more..) » Contact Photographer · Photographer Profile |
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A single GE U23B leads a Western Pacific local at the north end of Rio Grande's Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. The train consist includes a pair of D&RGW ballast loads and a long cut of mill gondolas retrieved at Garfield. The WP 2259 was acquired new from GE in June 1972 and was retired and scrapped after a big wreck at Deeth, Nevada on Sept. 12, 1981. |
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