Parked on the whiskers of the turntable in Southern Pacific’s Bakersfield yard are a pair of consecutively numbered Denver & Rio Grande Western GP35s: 3044 and 3045. What were the odds? By this date in 1993, the D&RGW was operated as a separate division of the Southern Pacific, but now with a single owner, the power was mixed freely. (Bakersfield, California – March 14, 1993)
