BNSF’s Cody local approaches Vocation, Wyoming, on June 24, 2016. Vocation was a siding and station on the CB&Q’s line to Cody near the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, a concentration camp used for internment of Japanese Americans evicted from the West Coast Exclusion Zone during World War II. At one point, it had a peak population of 10,767, making it the third-largest “town” in Wyoming before it closed on November 10, 1945. Today’s local is four cars and a caboose powered by two former Burlington Northern SD70MACs, and is bound for the connection with the Casper Subdivision at Frannie.
