A Chicago & North Western C41-8 leads an 84 car Wattis Plateau to Intermountain Power coal train west through Springville on April 14, 1996.
Shortly after CNW8564's arrival at EMY, the Amtrak Zephyr engineer is seen waiting for his "get to go home" signal to take the empty #5 trainset to the West Oakland coach yard.
Bay Area foamers were lucky to get two unpatched Chicago & North Western locomotives on the San Jose to Roseville manifest with CNW8564 and CNW8603 leading up front. The UP freight holds for Amtra... (more)