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SD59MX's in Feather River Canyon

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SD59MX's in Feather River Canyon
Posted by Cajon_92 on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:13 PM

During my annual journey up to the Western Pacific railroad museum this past August I took some time in the afternoon to chase a few of the trains that were running on the eastern portion of UP's Canyon Sub. After spending the morning at the museum I chased UP's AGBMI west out of Portola and down to Keddie where I waited to see what else was running. Soon UP's "canyon crawler" local (which runs between Roseville and Portola, CA) came along heading east. On the point were a pair of spotless (Roseville based) SD59MX's. I chased the crawler back to Portola catching them at Williams Loop and finally at Two Rivers. Below is a picture of the UP 9912 and 9920 at MP 305.0 on UP's Canyon Subdivision (just west of Two Rivers). These rebuilt SD60Ms sure look sharp.

Thanks for looking,

~Ryan

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Posted by CAZEPHYR on Thursday, November 1, 2012 1:03 PM

Very nice scene and those SD59MX units do look good.

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Posted by oldHooker on Saturday, November 3, 2012 8:18 AM

Those "spotless" SD59MX's do look nice against the backdrop of that scenery... I can almost hear their horns echoing through the hills!

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Posted by chad s thomas on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 5:22 PM

Looks like I took this at the same spot looking the other way.

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Posted by bubbajustin on Friday, November 9, 2012 12:36 PM

Stellar image! 

The 59's are on Ex- SD60 frames right? 

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Posted by Bryan Jones on Monday, November 12, 2012 5:23 AM

bubbajustin

Stellar image! 

The 59's are on Ex- SD60 frames right? 

former SD60M's, as stated in the original post.

 

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Posted by Cajon_92 on Friday, November 16, 2012 10:31 PM

Thanks for the comments all. Those SD59MX units look very sharp.

 

chad s thomas

Looks like I took this at the same spot looking the other way.

 
Chad, your image appears to have been taken near the old WP station of Cresta (b/t Pulga and Rock Creek). My shot of the SD59's on the Canyon flyer was taken at Two Rivers (MP 305.0) which is roughly 15 miles west of Portola.
 
~Ryan

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