A Yardley Switch drags a cut of cars up to the N Freya Street grade separation on the "High Line." To the left are the Stockyards at Trent and Freya. They have since been razed for a wastewater facility. This chop-nosed SD9 was rebuilt by LRC (Livingston Rebuild Center) in July of 1989 from Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range #132, a February 1958 EMD product. I took this shot on my last business trip for NBC (I was laid off about a month later).
Documenting the comparative traffic of the Burlington Northern, the Milwaukee Road, and the Union Pacific between Puget Sound and the Midwest, mainly focusing on the 1970s but including other time periods as well. Also featuring Milwaukee Road freights on