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Diesel pioneers

By Angela Cotey | January 20, 2020

| Last updated on December 29, 2020

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A GP9 and RS11 work in Crookston, Minn., on Aug. 15, 1969. Northern Pacific went from hauling 35 percent of its tonnage behind diesel in 1950 to complete dieselization in January 1958. Bells retired from steam locomotives found their way onto GP9 replacements.
Doug Wingfield photo

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