UP has brought two of these relatively new slug sets to Albina Yard. From what i could dig up, most of these are rebuilds of former Missouri Pacific SD38-2s.
The outbound Toledo Hauler rolls down the median on SW 6th Street in Corvallis. This stretch of trackage was originally street running, a legacy of SP's Red Electric interurban service.
On Labor Day 1988, an eastbound SP drag takes siding for Amtrak 11 on the south side of Albany. At the time, it was common for SP to use first generation power on trains in the Willamette Valley b... (more)