1983 Thistle Line Change
Rio Grande SD40T-2 No. 5381 emerges from the Thistle Tunnel on the 1983 Thistle Line Change the evening of June 29, 1996. The quartet of D&RGW "tunnel motors" were pulling a Skyline to Los Angeles Harbor export coal train. Above the train, at left is an excavation for the realignment of US Highway 6 over Billies Mountain.
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1983 Thistle Line Change
Rio Grande SD40T-2 No. 5381 emerges from the Thistle Tunnel on the 1983 Thistle Line Change the evening of June 29, 1996. The quartet of D&RGW "tunnel motors" were pulling a Skyline to Los Angeles Harbor export coal train. Above the train, at left is an excavation for the realignment of US Highway 6 over Billies Mountain.
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Uploaded on August 15, 2021
Taken on June 29, 1996