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Freight Train at Ravenna.
Ravenna (Soledad Canyon)

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Postcard ca. 1970. Ravenna station behind the train? (Yellow structure at right appears to be a private home.) Back reads:

SD39 #5308, a 2,300-horsepower unit built in September of 1968 by Electro-Motive for Southern Pacific, works on the point of Westbound tonnage at Ravenna, California. Three additional units and fifty-seven cars stretch out behind the #5308's drawbar in Soledad Canyon.

D-2022 Ektrachrome by Gary G. Allen — Chatham Publishing Co., P.O. Box 283, Burlingame, CA 94010.

Postcard acquired by SCVHS, March 2003.

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HS9010b: 4800 dpi jpeg from original postcard

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