In 1988, wide-nosed locomotives had not yet become as ubiquitous as they are in the 2000s, as evidenced by a Union Pacific intermodal train passing through Ontario, California, behind the then fairly new technology of stacking containers in well cars. (Southern Pacific Railroad built the first double-stack intermodal car in 1977, but it was slow to become an industry standard. In 1984 American President Lines started working with Union Pacific Railroad and, that same year, the first all double-stack train left Los Angeles CA for South Kearny NJ). This double-stack train, heading west some four years after the first train of this type to operate on the UP, is led by a quintet of Union Pacific’s recently purchased diesels: Dash 8-40C 9129, a pair of SD60s and another pair of Dash 8-40Cs. (March 1988)
