West Quinlan
Doug Harrop Photography • October 5, 1994
A pair a Santa Fe Super Fleet GE locomotives pull a westbound container train through Quinlan, Oklahoma on October 5, 1994. The train is ascending the 1% Curtis Hill grade.
The track trailing off to the right is the original alignment, becoming a passing track when the main line was relocated with less curvature.
This route through the red clay hills of north central Oklahoma was becoming a bottleneck on the Santa Fe Transcon. In 1995, it would be double tracked, completed just in time for the BNSF merger.
West Quinlan
Doug Harrop Photography • October 5, 1994
A pair a Santa Fe Super Fleet GE locomotives pull a westbound container train through Quinlan, Oklahoma on October 5, 1994. The train is ascending the 1% Curtis Hill grade.
The track trailing off to the right is the original alignment, becoming a passing track when the main line was relocated with less curvature.
This route through the red clay hills of north central Oklahoma was becoming a bottleneck on the Santa Fe Transcon. In 1995, it would be double tracked, completed just in time for the BNSF merger.