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‘San Francisco Overland’

By Brian Schmidt | August 31, 2021

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Smoking steam locomotive leads a passenger train across open terrain by a water spout

‘San Francisco Overland’

Dressed in two-tone gray, FEF-1 816 and FEF-2 824 make 55 mph up Sherman Hill near Otto, Wyo., on October 21, 1949. Green flags and “1-27” in the 4-8-4s’ train indicator boxes tell that at least one other section of the San Francisco Overland is following. Ross B. Grenard Jr. photo

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