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Early SP intermodal train

By Angela Cotey | February 19, 2016

| Last updated on January 6, 2021

An A-B-A set of F units departs San Francisco with Southern Pacific train 372, the piggyback-heavy Advance Overnight for Los Angeles, in August 1955.
William Harry photo

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