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In the past two blog entries we have seen the view back from the locomotive and the caboose working at the other end of the train, both taken in 1990.  In today’s time capsule from July that same year we get to see both ends of a westbound intermodal train climbing the grade on the ATSF Transcon between Belva and Quinlan, Oklahoma.  SD45-2 5808 in the briefly displayed Kodachrome paint scheme along with three SD40-2’s are leading a string of trailers that stretches back out of sight.

Bringing up the rear this day instead of a disappearing caboose or a new and boring rear-end device was a welcome surprise in the form of business car “Santa Fe.”

If the conductor was indeed back there this trip he was certainly traveling in style!