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Clean cut

By Angela Cotey | September 16, 2016

| Last updated on December 18, 2020

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Clean BNSF Railway locomotives, clean ballast, and clean freight cars, match a clean, crystalline blue sky at the lower portion of “Sullivan’s Curve” in this October 2013 shot in California’s famed Cajon Pass. Photo by Steve Sweeney

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