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GP30’s with Soo Line freight
Two Soo Line GP30’s, wearing the sharp red-and-light-gray color scheme devised by the photographer when he was with the road’s p.r. department, are near Shoreham Yard, Minneapolis, in 1964. Wallace W. Abbey photo
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A friend in time: My railroad watch

A Santa Fe man’s timepiece, once an essential tool, is a keepsake from a long career

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I knew I wanted to be a railroad man, specifically a locomotive engineer, when I was about six or seven years old. This was in 1925-26, when steam locomotives were supreme and my young heart would almost stop when I stood along the Southern Pacific m
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