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Doug Harrop Photography • July 10, 1986

 

Eleven miles of Southern Pacific's causeway over the Great Salt Lake were severely damaged by storms that passed through the region in June of 1986. Even though the route was shut down to through traffic, the causeway was teaming with rip rap and ballast trains in a fever pitch to rebuild and return the line to service.

 

A "Kodachrome" painted GP9E and two SD9E locomotives pull a train of Difco air activated side dump cars through Lakeside, 60 miles west of Ogden, Utah.

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Taken on July 10, 1986