Passenger Trains > Sept 9th, #6 meeting the UP at Sloat

With a few gawkers and lengthening shadows, #6 met a Westbound freight at Sloat

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Ah crap, thats the UP8242 leading that UP Grain Train! Being assigned to coal/grain trains, it is already rare out in these parts to see a SD90 at all. FTTDK (for those that don't know) for a few years the UP8242 was the one-of-a-kind SD9043AC with wreck repaired nose-wings applied to it. IIRC, at least one other SD9043AC has received the nose wings now.

So Drew, no shots of the UP8242 from the front?

Per Don Strack's http://utahrails.net website:

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The UP 8242 was wrecked on 9 August 2000 at Springfield, Colo., while in service on the C-CQEY1-08 from Cochise, Ariz., to Energy, Colo.; damage repaired and unit retuned to service on 8 April 2001 painted with UP's full width nose wings; the first SD9043AC to receive the wings.

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"So Drew, no shots of the UP8242 from the front?"

Ryan>> Well, I do have some moral standards left, not a lot but a few, and ignoring most puke-yellow locomotives is one of them.