Haulin' a Whole Lot o' Nothin' -- Southern Pacific SD40R Locomotive in San Luis Obispo, California Poster

If you were trackside in the 1990s, you were almost certain to see come variant of EMDs SD40 locomotive. Even in 2020, over 50 years after their introduction and over 30 years after the last variant rolled off the assembly line, many are still active on both Class I and regional lines.

This one is an SD40R, a 1980 rebuild of an early 1966 locomotive. It was photographed in the mid 1990s as it pulled a string of empty well cars southbound though the San Luis Obispo train station.

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