UNION PACIFIC
Rebuilt E9s pull UP's classy excursion train
exiting Chilcoote Tunnel heading west toward
Portola, Calif. in celebration of Portola
Railroad Museum's 10th anniversary. The
event, July 1-4, 1994, included excursions
through the Feather River Canyon. E9s 951,
963B and 949 were rebuilt to GP38-2
standards by VMV Manufacturing in
Paducah, Kentucky.
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NOW AND THEN
A Burlington Northern coal train moves past
the Newcastle, Wyo. station with three new
EMD SD70MACs, June 12,1994. Not much
has seemed to have changed since Burlington
SD9s, sporting new and old colors, passed the
same station a quater of a century earlier on
July 8, 1968.
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