Union Pacific 844 To Cheyenne On Saturday
Jul 24, 2017 09:27:57 #
Last Saturday the last steam engine purchased by the Union Pacific Railroad pulled a passenger special to Cheyenne from Denver for the opening of the week long Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration. I wasn't able to follow him north but did get a shot as he left town early Saturday morning. Here's my shot as he passed the connection to the Belt Line that runs across the north side of town to connect with the former Denver Rio Grande & Western Railroad.
I shot this with my Canon T6s body, with a Canon 100 - 400 mm "L" lens.
I shot this with my Canon T6s body, with a Canon 100 - 400 mm "L" lens.
Jul 24, 2017 09:33:45 #
Jul 24, 2017 09:34:19 #
Nice. I had the pleasure of checking that engine out up close and personal when it made a stop in Phoenix some years ago.
--Bob
--Bob
Jul 24, 2017 09:34:22 #
Nice, it would be great to see. When I was a very small kid I had the chance to ride in a working steam engine with the engineer who the family knew, I was too scared with the noise and steam and being little and would not go. Now I regret that. It would have been quite the memory
Jul 24, 2017 09:40:56 #
Bill MN wrote:
Do you know which engine that was?
UP 844, the number is visible in the number board near the front of the boiler.
Jul 24, 2017 09:52:58 #
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Jul 25, 2017 07:29:55 #
phal84
Loc: Huntsville
Check this site out for UP 844
https://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/steam/locomotives/844.shtml
Lived not to far from the Santa Fe switch yard in Bakersfield; heard trains being set up for the trip up to Tehachapi, Mojave and beyond all night long; you got used to it.
And the Santa Fe passanger train from Los Angeles arrived early every morning while I walked to (high) school; very interesting seeing them load/unload and otherwise getting ready for the trip north up the valley.
https://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/steam/locomotives/844.shtml
Lived not to far from the Santa Fe switch yard in Bakersfield; heard trains being set up for the trip up to Tehachapi, Mojave and beyond all night long; you got used to it.
And the Santa Fe passanger train from Los Angeles arrived early every morning while I walked to (high) school; very interesting seeing them load/unload and otherwise getting ready for the trip north up the valley.
Jul 25, 2017 08:31:28 #
Jul 25, 2017 14:18:50 #
Glad to see that they still make that steam run up to Frontier Days. I rode it in the previus millennium.
Jul 25, 2017 15:21:45 #
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