Climbing out of Benson, the railroad does a series of twists and bends to climb up the hill to Dragoon. If you look about 200 feet beyond the signals you can see remnants of the original right of way. The SP straightened the route between Fenner and Sybil in 1958. If you look between the two signals you can see the headend of Extra 8479 East (train TUEPY) coming through Fenner. It picked up the copper loads and tank car we saw at Benson yesterday afternoon. Disk 56 above and below

About an hour earlier Extra 9105 West came down the hill on December 3, 1977. Disk 57 above

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