A pair of General Electric 125 ton, 3000 Volt 'Magna Motors' lead a 90 car train of copper ore empties to the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine on April 8, 1977. Built in 1947, the Magna Motors worked Ke... (more)
A pair of General Electric 125 ton, 3000 Volt 'Magna Motors' lead a 90 car train of copper ore empties bound for the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine in the Oquirrh Mountains. Built in 1947, the boxy GE... (more)
A pair of General Electric 125 ton, 3000 Volt 'Magna Motors' lead a 90 car train of copper ore from the Bingham Canyon Mine bound for the smelters at Garfield. Built in 1947, these boxy GEs made e... (more)
A pair of GE 125 ton 'Magna Motors' make one of their final runs hauling ore between the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine and Magna, pending retirement and replacement by new diesel powered EMD SD40-2s.
A pair of General Electric 125 ton, 3000 Volt 'Magna Motors' lead a 90 car train of copper ore from the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, bound for the car dumpers at Magna, Utah. Built in 1947, the box... (more)
A fine example of a GE 125-ton Electric workhorse stands proudly at Copperton yard just outside Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine. This 3000 HP 'Magna Motor' was built in Nov. 1947 and would ... (more)
A pair of Kennecott Copper 'Magna Motors' arrive at Copperton yard with 90 ore empties ready for loading at the Bingham Canyon mine.
While most freight trains had cabooses in 1977, relatively few had waycars painted in United States Bicentennial livery. A Kennecott Copper Corp. train conductor is pictured dropping his caboose f... (more)
How many of us took operations like this for granted? This is a big gutsy monster of a center-cab and it has truck mounted couplers just like Tyco.
