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My road is the Deere Valley & Western. Though an extremely small (4x8) railroad without rolling stock of its own, (much of the motive power and freight cars are owned and operated by John Deere Company), being in a unique location allowed it to lease trackage rights to the Union Pacific and Santa Fe on both of its main lines and its branch line through the central part of Deere Valley where a large John Deere distribution center is being built. This allows for great variety in consists of both passenger and freight equipment and is indeed a very busy railroad. Having a steep, curving 4% grade into and out of the valley brings in some of Union Pacific's largest locomotives and F7 ABBA Santa Fe passenger consists are not uncommon.
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