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When the F40s were King

Amtrak F40PH locomotives 321 and 336 pull the California Zephyr train No. 6 along the Thistle Line Change the morning of June 13, 1984. The line change, built to bypass a massive landslide in the town of Thistle, Utah, opened for service on July 4, 1983. A switchback for construction of the realignment of US Highway 6, is on Billies Mountain at upper right.

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Uploaded on May 26, 2023
Taken on June 13, 1984