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Photos & Videos Photo of the Day Pigs over Cuesta

Pigs over Cuesta

By Angela Cotey | April 20, 2019

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

A Southern Pacific piggyback train of modified conventional flatcars with company trailers negotiates Cuesta Grade above San Luis Obispo, Calif., in June 1957.
Robert Hale photo

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