An eastbound Gateway Western Railway freight approaches West Bottoms in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 16, 1990. The train is passing some idle Chicago and North Western locomotives, and has just met a Burlington Northern intermodal, the rear passing the Old Union Depot Interlocking tower in the background. GWWR No. 2023 is former Penn Central/Conrail EMD GP38 No. 7762. With Santa Fe backing, the Gateway Western Railway was formed in 1989 (beginning operations in January, 1990) by purchasing the former Alton route between Kansas City and St. Louis from bankrupt Chicago, Missouri and Western. This gave Santa Fe access to St. Louis, which after the BNSF merger in 1995, became redundant. In 1997, GWWR was purchased by Kansas City Southern and operated as a subsidiary until 2001.

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Arizona Eastern SW1200 No. 24 on the 105 job drops down to Junction Yard with empty hoppers after dumping the loads of copper concentrate into the unloading facility of the Phelps-Dodge smelter complex at Miami, Arizona, on March 19, 2004. The train is passing some neat old motorcars and track equipment on an isolated piece of track in the facility.

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An eastbound Cimarron Valley local on the former Santa Fe Manter Subdivision crosses a trestle east of Ulysses, Kansas, on March 1, 2000. CVR GP30 No. 3023 is a former Rio Grande locomotive of the same road number.

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Copper Basin Railway‘s empty ore train No. OT-2 rumbles through Ray Junction, Arizona, on March 29, 2010. Spring has sprung in the high desert, as the Gila River is running brown and a hillside of flowers soak up the bright sunshine.

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Sierra Railroad GP9E leads a four-car passenger extra through a “S curve” in the verdant hills east of Paulsell at mile 12.2. This passenger extra was operated as a special run on the Sunday after Winterail on March 14, 2004.

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