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10. Locomotive No. 29 is on the head end of train No.
14, the Merced Local, this day. It is shown waiting for
the semaphore to drop at the AT&SF interlocking plant
so that it can proceed toward Merced Falls and, ulti-
mately, El Portal.
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11. While train No. 14 was switching cars onto its train
in Merced, locomotive No. 25 was doing likewise in
El Portal for the El Portal Local. Here is it pulling a YV
flat car loaded with a state roads department Fresno
scraper out of the auto loading track.
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orientation for visiting operators before the operating sessions.
I have a checklist of the things I want to cover during these
orientations. For example, I like operators to take water at all
MRH-Nov 2014
