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Photos & Videos Photo of the Day Fast freight

Fast freight

By Angela Cotey | April 20, 2024

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

A Santa Ana freight works upgrade on the eastbound main at Summit, Calif., on Cajon Pass on Dec. 28, 1940.
Edwin A. Vail photo

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