RailPictures.Net Photo: Various Western Pacific EMD GP7s, GP9s, GP20s at Salt Lake City, Utah by James Belmont
 
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» Western Pacific (more..)
» EMD GP7s, GP9s, GP20s (more..)
» South Yard, 1st South and Fifth West 
» Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (more..)
» August 24, 1985
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Nearly two years after the WP-UP merger, more than a dozen Western Pacific locomotives were stored, neglected, and eventually retired in Salt Lake City. Image photographed on Kodachrome 25 film on Aug. 24, 1985.
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