California Cotton Belt.
Union Pacific Railroad (UP) GP60 no. 1068 - still sporting patched St. Louis Southwestern (SSW) paint - is seen idling in Watsonville Junction Yard while shuffling cars. As is evidenced by the iconic "bloody nose" paint scheme, the SSW was a Southern Pacific (SP) subsidiary, having been acquired by the latter in 1932 and remaining so until 1992. The SP merged into the UP just four years later.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
