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By:Ryan Swanson
Dates:1/1/1989 - 3/20/2010
Album Info:assorted pictures from the late 80s & early 90s while I was going to high school in Blackfoot, ID and more modern stuff
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Former WP GP-40 at Blackfoot
Title:  Former WP GP-40 at Blackfoot
Description:  Former WP GP-40 on the Aberdeen Local
Photo Date:  8/2/1989  Upload Date: 11/29/2009 11:22:32 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 657(GP40)
Views:  384   Comments: 0
SW-10 at Blackfoot
Title:  SW-10 at Blackfoot
Description:  A rare SW-10 made an appearance at Blackfoot in the early 90s.
Photo Date:  3/10/1990  Upload Date: 3/19/2010 5:41:39 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 1225(SW10) UP 1835(SW9)
Views:  1160   Comments: 0
Last Caboose on the Aberdeen Local
Title:  Last Caboose on the Aberdeen Local
Description:  Former RI CA-13 on the Cab Track at Blackfoot. Fortunately, this caboose is now at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA
Photo Date:  5/1/1991  Upload Date: 11/29/2009 11:18:10 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  283   Comments: 0
OLS Special on the UPRR Montana Sub
Title:  OLS Special on the UPRR Montana Sub
Description:  UP#3957 pulls an OLS Special through Wapello, enroute to Blackfoot
Photo Date:  5/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/19/2010 5:52:28 PM
Location:  Wapello, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3957(SD40-2)
Views:  301   Comments: 0
baggage turned idler
Title:  baggage turned idler
Description:  this idler car for the Ohio Crane in the background was a baggage car in a previous incarnation (before the carmen at the Pocatello Steel Car Shop got a hold of it)
Photo Date:  10/31/1991  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 3:49:38 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  225   Comments: 0
Former MKT GP39-2 Stuck in the Snow
Title:  Former MKT GP39-2 Stuck in the Snow
Description:  UP#2361 has derailed in the snow. There is a crossing (with plugged flangeways) underneath the front truck, which is now slightly askew.
Photo Date:  1/11/1992  Upload Date: 11/29/2009 10:48:56 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  UP 2361(GP39-2)
Views:  524   Comments: 1
Derailment Plus Five Minutes
Title:  Derailment Plus Five Minutes
Description:  The front truck of the UP#2361 was knocked off of the rails by snow packed in the flangeways about five minutes before this photo was taken.
Photo Date:  1/11/1992  Upload Date: 11/29/2009 11:28:31 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  UP 2361(GP39-2)
Views:  443   Comments: 0
PCSB at Blackfoot
Title:  PCSB at Blackfoot
Description:  UP#9180 leading the northbound PCSB (Pocatello, ID to Silver Bow, MT) on the main at Blackfoot
Photo Date:  2/1/1992  Upload Date: 11/29/2009 11:33:38 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9180(C40-8)
Views:  410   Comments: 0
PCSB (no M) Northbound
Title:  PCSB (no M) Northbound
Description:  The PCSB just set out the Blackfoot block and is now enroute north to Idaho Falls, Dillon and Silver Bow.
Photo Date:  5/5/1992  Upload Date: 3/19/2010 5:55:15 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2514(C30-7)
Views:  332   Comments: 0
OLS Special in Blackfoot
Title:  OLS Special in Blackfoot
Description:  An OLS Special leaving the Blackfoot Depot and heading west on the Aberdeen Branch
Photo Date:  5/10/1992  Upload Date: 3/19/2010 6:12:38 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6216(SD60M)
Views:  475   Comments: 0
OLS Special at Blackfoot
Title:  OLS Special at Blackfoot
Description:  An OLS Special loading passengers on the main at Blackfoot
Photo Date:  5/10/1992  Upload Date: 3/19/2010 6:10:25 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3957(SD40-2)
Views:  348   Comments: 0
Former WP GP35 on the Aberdeen Local
Title:  Former WP GP35 on the Aberdeen Local
Description:  Former Western Pacific GP35 on the Aberdeen Local. This locomotive was wrecked in 1982 and rebuilt with a long hood from a UP GP35 and a cab from a Mop GP38-2.
Photo Date:  6/1/1992  Upload Date: 11/29/2009 10:35:52 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 798(GP35) WP 3020(GP35)
Views:  1862   Comments: 1
Aberdeen Local Power and Cab
Title:  Aberdeen Local Power and Cab
Description:  UP#24592 (CA-13) and UP#2039 tied up on the cab track at Blackfoot
Photo Date:  6/1/1992  Upload Date: 3/19/2010 6:00:53 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 2039(GP38-2)
Views:  323   Comments: 0
Last Caboose on the Montana Sub
Title:  Last Caboose on the Montana Sub
Description:  UP#24592 was the last caboose assigned to the Aberdeen Local. It was used a few times on Scoville-Port Chicago specials, spent some time in Dunsmuir and ended up at the WPRM in Portola.
Photo Date:  6/10/1992  Upload Date: 3/19/2010 5:58:03 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives: 
Views:  391   Comments: 1
Snowplow Waiting for Some Snow
Title:  Snowplow Waiting for Some Snow
Description:  UP#900000, assigned to the UP Aberdeen Branch, is lounging around during the summer months in Blackfoot.
Photo Date:  7/12/1992  Upload Date: 11/29/2009 11:00:48 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  1717   Comments: 1
A Kid and His Geep
Title:  A Kid and His Geep
Description:  my friend Shane posing on the UP#2032, power for the Aberdeen Local, at Blackfoot
Photo Date:  7/16/1992  Upload Date: 11/29/2009 11:07:31 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2032(GP38-2)
Views:  352   Comments: 0
A Kid and His Geep, Part 2
Title:  A Kid and His Geep, Part 2
Description:  my friend Shane in the engineers seat of the UP#2032 at Blackfoot. I was wondering a while back how long the Barco speedos were used...
Photo Date:  7/16/1992  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 4:05:02 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  InCab
Locomotives:  UP 2032(GP38-2)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
just like back in the day
Title:  just like back in the day
Description:  UP Dome Coach Challenger on the main in front of the former O.S.L. depot at Blackfoot
Photo Date:  10/31/1992  Upload Date: 12/6/2009 3:52:53 PM
Location:  Blackfoot, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  838   Comments: 0
End of the Line
Title:  End of the Line
Description:  Im not sure what sort of malady ails this ex-Conrail GP30, but it was enough to place it into mothballs at the end of the old PFE spur in Idaho Falls.
Photo Date:  3/20/2010  Upload Date: 3/27/2010 6:39:56 PM
Location:  Idaho Falls, ID
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EIRR 2242(GP30)
Views:  944   Comments: 1


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