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The Fast Forty Sandwich

Doug Harrop Photography • March 3, 1978

 

As I browsed through one of Doug's many Logan slide files, I discovered a block of Union Pacific "Centennial" photographs, taken in Utah and Wyoming. This one stood out as one of the finest photographs I've ever seen of a train in Echo Canyon.

 

Doug made this photo on Kodachrome film on a party cloudy morning. Typical of this UP era was to "sandwich" a high geared SD40-2 between two DDA40X locomotives. I love the low angle he chose, with twin reverse curves of high iron imbedded in smelter slag ballast. This was the big time Union Pacific we once knew and adored.

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Uploaded on September 24, 2024
Taken on March 3, 1978