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A puff of white smoke shoots out of the exhaust stacks as CSXT Ballast Train A00604 shoves back to dump some ballast on the new double track CSXT is building at Parkwood, Al.
On the siding at Newberry on ther Needles Sub in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. Much of the red rock ballast of the Santa Fe comes from this facility.
Newberry, CA (MP 725.6)
Needles Sub
January 4, 2003
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