RailPictures.Net Photo: RI 4709 Rock Island EMD GP40 at Amarillo, Texas by Craig Walker Collection

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» Amarillo, Texas, USA (more..)
» November, 1976

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A quartet of diesels sits in Rock Island’s yard in Amarillo: Two GP40s, a U25B and an U28B. RI GP40 4709 as built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in April 1970. After the fall of the Rock Island, it would become Union Pacific 640.

(Amarillo, Texas – November 1976) Russell Eslick photograph, Craig Walker collection

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Make	Nikon
Model	Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED