Valentines Day 1998 found EMD testing out their brand new 6000 HP SD90MAC's on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. UP 8502-8505 were pulling half a loaded coal train west. The end DPU unit was UP 8504, wearing a special scheme nicknamed "Shamu".
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With the UP/SP merger coming less that a year earlier, this was still a new site to see on the Moffat in 1997! BNSF trackage rights trains heading both east and west. Here, an MDVSTJ (Denver to Stockton) manifest makes its way west on the main track at Plain.
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