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Photos & Videos Photo of the Day Joint Line

Joint Line

By Angela Cotey | April 23, 2024

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

Eight Santa Fe and Burlington Northern engines power a Santa Fe freight on the Rio Grande-owned northbound Joint Line track at Castle Rock, Colo., in 1973.
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