Throw back shot to the Coastline circa 2015. This was back when UP ran regular empty autos and well cars on the coast. Former SP 232 does the honors leading today.
A Union Pacific Coal load has come off the Butte Sub and into the south yard at Alliance with freshly painted 6311 on the rear.
An ex-Southern Pacific AC4400 leads a Mexico-bound AMPEPR auto train into Ventura on its trip down the Coast Line at last light as fishermen go about their day oblivious to the train's passage.
I saw UP 6311 leading the oilcans around Thanksgiving 2013, so it was a treat to this old piece of Southern Pacific leading an empty auto train down the Coastline two years later. The train is acc... (more)
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