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When I grabbed a random box of slides last night and sorted through several mediocre shots from July of 1997 I stopped when I came across this one of a northbound rock train passing the depot in Davis, Oklahoma with a GP30 leading.  It appears to be a classic Santa Fe photo until you look more closely.

The merger of the AT&SF into the BNSF is seven months old at this point, and the Davis depot was converted into the Arbuckle Historical Museum after being refurbished in 1992 and separated from the tracks by an iron fence.  The first two units of the rock train power are unpatched Santa Fe, but the third unit wears a BN number and green paint.  Lead unit 2773 was delivered to the Santa Fe in 1963 as the 1373, and several months after this picture was taken all the ex-ATSF GP30’s were moved to the 2400 class.  As far as I know the 2773 is still out there somewhere today as the BNSF 2471.