UP 5031 (8/71, 37284) was retired 27 Feb 1978, scrapped 6/78 at Turner, KS before her 7th birthday. UP GP9B 173B (3/54, 19249) was retired by UP 1/77, but rebuilt at Paducah to ICG GP10 8305.
Rock Island power behind this U50C
after a light snow
Kind of unusual to see three lashed together like this.
You should have heard these monster "chug"
Three U50c's pull a freight train towards Las Vegas...they look like oversized box cars....
The first of the U50C's is caught in brief evening light on an otherwise rainy day. The validity of the cab-side slogan is questionable, at least where the U50C's were concerned.
Honeywell Pentax H1a
