BNSF’s Cody local crosses a wood trestle approaching Vocation, Wyoming, on June 28, 2018. Vocation was a siding and station on the CB&Q’s line to Cody near the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, a concentration camp used for internment of Japanese Americans evicted from the West Coast Exclusion Zone during World War II. At one point, it had a peak population of 10,767, making it the third-largest “town” in Wyoming before it closed on November 10, 1945. Today’s local has a large cut of covered hoppers up front to be set out at Ralston Elevator a few miles ahead.
