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.   .   .    on a summer '75 drive east on good old dependable, for railroad action, US Hwy 30, across Nebraska, caught this westbound UP at, I think, Columbus?
JB



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Why did they have all the mu recepicles on them?
5 different ones and now they only have 1 live and a dummy one

Classic older power.Remembering all this isn't  as easy as we thought.Bill Webb

BNModeler Wrote:
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> Why did they have all the mu recepicles on them?
> 5 different ones and now they only have 1 live and
> a dummy one

The blue one is a standard 27 pin MU receptacle and the two red ones on the other side are the UP 12 and 21 pin MU receptacles.
The rectangular red one's on the top on both sides are Dynamic Brake Loop connections.
The 12 & 21 pin system was a UP thing. 

Certainly one of your best shots.  So cool to see high nose geeps and clean.  
Brian Stevens

The Columbus I knew had a stone depot.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Great scene.
Bob

Very nice catch on the power set.
Looks to me like two GP9's (with cab) and three GP9B's (no cab).
Thanks for the nice photo posting.
ALLEN

Bob3985 Wrote:
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> The Columbus I knew had a stone depot.

Really nice shot. I agree with Bob; doesn't look like Columbus.

Kim Heusel

Nice shot, JB!  I remember my first rip down US30.  Quite a show.  Not too many years ago, UP posted train counts daily at Gothenberg, Nebraska on their web site for the public to see.  It was always 130-150 trains a day

RC Lundgren
Elgin,TX

The depot design looks like Gibbon. Not sure where the depot sat relative to the bridge in town though

I think I figured it out - Cozad, NE, right at the 100th Meridian - Pole line is gone obviously, but elevator and bridge match perfectly. 

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> .   .   .    on a summer '75 drive east on
> good old dependable, for railroad action, US Hwy
> 30, across Nebraska, caught this westbound UP at,
> I think, Columbus?


This is a westward train at Lexington, Nebraska.

Thanks for posting the photo.

Mark