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Rock Island Coal Hoppers in Utah

You might not expect to see a string of 100 bright blue Rock Island coal hoppers in Provo, Utah, but from May 1978 through July 1979, a unit train operated between a coal mine at Wattis, Utah on the Utah Railway and the Union Pacific and Rock Island routes to the Union Electric coal-fired power plant at Labadie, Missouri.

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Uploaded on February 3, 2017
Taken on June 25, 1978