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Before gaining shorter access to the Transcon via Amarillo after the BN merger and to Sweetwater over the UP Baird Sub, Santa Fe trains heading west out of Fort Worth took the long way around.  They headed southwest on the Dublin Sub to Brownwood and then northwest on the Lamapassas Sub to Sweetwater.  As an example here we see a westbound Santa Fe train leaving the Fort Worth Sub at Birds and dropping down the one mile long connection to the Dublin Sub.

The two clean C40-8W’s are using the dynamic brakes to help ease their train around the sharp curve off the mainline and down the 2% grade to the beginning of the Dublin Sub in October of 1992.