By the mid 1980’s, freight traffic on Santa Fe’s Raton line was sparse, but not virtually nonexistent as it is today. Some of those few trains could, however be heavy enough to require helpers over Raton Pass. Here a westbound train at Raton enters the small yard with a significant group of EMD’s cut in a few cars ahead of the caboose.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.