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Published: 2013-12-23 15:50:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1100; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 12
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Several of you may remember a shot I took of the BNSF deadlines awhile back. Well, this is the backside of that shot. In the background, you can see the dome of the Kansas State Capital Building.From what I was able to tell, there were probably four or five tracks full of SD40-2s, GP30s, SD30s, SD38s, GP35us, GP40s, yard slugs, road slugs, rebuilds of every kind, and other various oddities and what-have-you. It was a literal repository of the last 50 years of ATSF railroad history.
This is where their old locomotives go to die.
Canon EOS 30D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
ISO 400 @ 1/400, f/6.3
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Among those GP30 may be one of them that is now used by Aiken Railway. Two ex-ATSF GP30 got new life and new paint on our local shoreline.
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That's good to hear. My guess is a lot of these have already seen the torches.
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The ones on AIKR went to a leasing company with several others and the owner of our shortline chose two of them.
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That's a lot of GP30's they have there, I didn't think there were many still around.
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Of course this was taken back in '09, so almost all of these have either been sold off or scrapped I'd imagine.
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That's sad to hear, at least some still live on though
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