Nostalgia & History > few "flares" for Friday . . .

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top: Westbound Cajon, CA 11-77.
middle: Eastbound Santa Susana, CA 11-90.
bottom: Eastbound Verdemont, CA 10-72.
JB

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Nice trio JB, especially the last two.  Thanks for sharing.

Kent in CArmel Valley

Very nice. Three roads and a wave. Good shots JB.
Brian Stevens

Always great to see photos of the UP flares in the 3600 series, horns placed above the radiator fans; thank you for sharing.

Some of those UP 3600's were used on the joint UP/D&RGW Kaiser coal train.  According to Don Strack's UtahRails.net info on UP SD45's, by June 1971, UP dedicated SD45's 3638-3649 to the Kaiser coal train.  The lead unit is 3638, from this batch, but as seen, these SD45's did wander from coal train service at times, such as between runs.  The photo's shows UP SD45 #3638 in 1977.  About a year later this SD45 received a new numbers; per UtahRails.net: "SD40-2s due to be delivered beginning in July 1979, the 50 SD45s were renumbered from 3600-3649 to the new numbers 1-50. To simplify the renumbering process, the last two digits were retained. Two examples would be UP 3603 and UP 3637 becoming UP 3 and UP 37, respectively. Since UP 3600 could not be renumbered to UP 0, it became UP 50."

Cheers, Jim Fitch

Cool trio.Bill Webb