RailPictures.Net Photo: KCC 406 Kennecott Copper Corp. GE 125 Ton Electrics at West Jordan, Utah by James Belmont
 
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» Kennecott Copper Corp. (more..)
» GE 125 Ton Electrics (more..)
» Central Junction, Copperton-Garfield Low Line 
» West Jordan, Utah, USA (more..)
» April 08, 1977
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» KCC 406 (more..)
» Magna Turn (more..)
» James Belmont (more..)
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A pair of General Electric 125 ton, 3000 Volt 'Magna Motors' lead a 90 car train of copper ore from the Bingham Canyon Mine bound for the car dumpers at Magna. Built in 1947, the boxy GEs made easy work of Kennecott's 16 mile CTC controlled ore haulage line, with a maximum grade of 1.35%. Each train would make an average of 18 round trips per day along the rolling foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains. Kennecott's venerable 'Magna Motors' would be replaced by EMD SD40-2's when the low line was dieselized late in 1978.
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