Saturday, January 17, 2009

Freighter to the rescue

UNION PACIFIC SD70M LEADING CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR, GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO, JANUARY 13, 2009

Pentax K10D
Pentax SMCP-DA 50-200 at 75mm
1/250 sec. f8
ISO 400

When one of the two locomotives pulling Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr failed, the Union Pacific Railroad lent a SD70M freight engine to help haul the train over the Rockies to Denver. Here the train stops at Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

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