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While photographing the Family Day scene for the UP, I took a few roster shots purely for my own benefit.  First up is the BNSF 6493 leaving the bowl with a transfer run back to Saginaw Yard.

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Before I came down from the foot bridge I focused on one of the children learning how to run an RCE locomotive for real.

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The event’s passenger train ride to Iona and back over the Baird Sub had left on its first trip before I arrived.  When it returned I saw it consisted of a pair of new Gensets with what I think are two of John Radovich’s ex-Amtrak coaches and an ex-Amtrak baggage car refitted as a power car sandwiched in between.  Here is a view of the east end as the train pulled up to the loading spot.

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Katy Heritage SD70ACe 1988 was the UP’s display engine for the 2007 Fort Worth Family Day event.  The Missouri Pacific unit would have been more appropriate here at theis ex-T&P, ex-MP facility, but moving trains is the first priority and the Katy unit was already in the immediate area.

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