487 at Lobato Trestle

By Brent Burger; posted August 5, 2004

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Lobato trestle was built when locomotives were half the size of the 480's. Regulations required helper locomotives to uncouple from their train and cross the trestle separately, as two locomotives would crush the structure. Here 487 waits for the train on the uphill side.

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