Union Pacific 844
Jan 30, 2018 17:25:35 #
JDawson
Loc: Boise, Idaho
This engine is a living legend. I caught it on a rare trip through Boise last April. She is a beautiful marvel of early 1900's engineering.
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Jan 31, 2018 11:43:37 #
JDawson wrote:
This engine is a living legend. I caught it on a rare trip through Boise last April. She is a beautiful marvel of early 1900's engineering.
Very nice JDawson, I think she is the prettiest Northern I've ever seen.
Jan 31, 2018 11:52:08 #
Jan 31, 2018 12:30:24 #
JDawson wrote:
Thanks. Here's a shot of the drive wheels for more detail.
I enjoy all detail shots!!!
Pat
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Feb 1, 2018 21:35:01 #
Hope to see her someday. Lovely crisp detail and even tones in your B&W. Her build date, by the way, was 1944, and she's never officially been retired from the Union Pacific roster (for a while she wore the number 8444 to avoid a numbering conflict with a diesel then in service).
Feb 1, 2018 21:46:19 #
JDawson
Loc: Boise, Idaho
Well, the traveling repair engineer told me that they rescued her from a museum in California and refurbed her in Wyoming. I don't know if museum equals "retired", but she was certainly long out to pasture.
John
John
Feb 1, 2018 21:59:57 #
Well, OK, I think your source, however, was misinformed. Nothing I've researched says the 844 was ever in a museum, although it appeared in steam at the opening of the California State Railroad Museum. All of the source material I've seen (Wikipedia and other UP steam-centric sites) says that after retiring its other steamers, they kept this one for special events. Cheers. --Al
Feb 2, 2018 11:53:58 #
JDawson wrote:
Well, the traveling repair engineer told me that they rescued her from a museum in California and refurbed her in Wyoming. I don't know if museum equals "retired", but she was certainly long out to pasture.
John
John
Not true. The 844 is famous for being the only American built steamer to never have been retired.
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