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Summer baretable

            An HLCX SD40-3M and an ATSF B40-8W hustle south on the BNSF Gateway Subdivision in summer 1988, roughly ten miles out of Klamath Falls, Oregon. When this transparency was exposed, the Gateway had been operating as a BNSF property for a little over a year. The BNSF had been in business for just under three years. However, aside from the variety of motive power roaming the Klamath Basin, changes were few. 

The Helm unit was somewhat exotic. It had been rebuilt from a Rio Grande SD45. The warbonnet GE was common in comparison, as BNSF had been regularly running locomotives in the stylish livery into Klamath Falls since the line was reopened. 

For a brief time after the Gateway Subdivision commenced operations in 1997, Klamath Falls was the dividing line between the 1970s and the 1990s. To the north, trains to and from the Oregon Trunk ran with former Burlington Northern EMD Dash 2 power and cabooses - railroading from the 1970s at its finest. South of Klamath, trains on the Gateway Sub had EMDs freely mixed with GEs, lots of Santa Fe warbonnets, and FREDs blinking away on the last car’s coupler - contemporary 1990s operation.  

History soon bowed to reality.

Taken in: United States / Oregon / Merrill (show map)

Taken on: August 29, 1998

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Camera: Plustek OpticFilm 8200i (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Plustek OpticFilm 8200i
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 15.0 (Windows)
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