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2005 UP Family Day at Dolores Page 3

Union Pacific Family Day at Dolores

Locomotive Facility, Page 3

April 16, 2005
Story and photographs copyright 2004 by Richard Elgenson
RailNews Network

The view from the southerly opening of the roundhouse looks like the following.

   

   

Locomotives have individual cylinders which can be exchanged, unlike an automobile engine which has a cast block.

   

   

Outside the roundhouse was a service truck used for taking lubricants to locomotives out in the field.

   

   



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