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 Posted - March 20 2010 : 11:25:09 AM
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UP 844
Friday, April 02, 2010
UP 844 rides the rails again! 
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/schedule.shtml
Will try to go but may hafta work that day  No promises 
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Posted - March 20 2010 : 1:03:38 PM
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She'll be a little bit too far west for me to see. 
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Posted - March 20 2010 : 2:57:51 PM
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Ben,
I met the head maintenance engineer for 844 through my work, and he is allowing me to visit the roundhouse in Cheyenne for pictures and a tour.
Also, with one phone call, ANYONE can tour the UP roundhouse and yard anytime, usually at either 9AM or 1PM.
I can see the throat of the Cheyenne UP yard from my work, and the yard has multiple trains leaving/entering...with a frequency of about 3 freights every 8 minutes, and a few coal drags every other day. A VERY BUSY yard.
BNSF has a small yard about 3 miles away in town, with a GP38-2 parked on a siding for switching a few industries in Cheyenne. Uncle Pete has a few older switchers, too.
I will post some 844 pics when I have them.
They have 844 out right now (this week) tuning her up for the Frontier Days run (Denver Union Terminal to downtown Cheyenne). There is also a Cheyenne museum run from Denver Union Station back to the UP station here in Cheyenne.
I saw her on a pass-around track on Tuesday...black smoke sky high...and you can hear her chuff almost a mile away.
Edited by - theoldreliable on March 20 2010 3:04:06 PM
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Posted - March 29 2010 : 6:21:42 PM
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well the move we was supposed to do got canceled Yayness  So guess I'm going to Lodgepole,Nebraska to see 844
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Posted - March 30 2010 : 4:41:02 PM
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| I see it's in KC this weekend. Bummer...I've got family stuff and work on Monday. I saw the 844 last summer in Omaha.
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Posted - March 31 2010 : 10:04:09 PM
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| Cool! It's coming through Denton Texas next Friday--About 5 miles from my house!
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Posted - April 01 2010 : 08:44:32 AM
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| yipes! Anyone know the scanner fequency for 844?? I needs it!
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Posted - April 01 2010 : 6:03:03 PM
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quote:yipes! Anyone know the scanner fequency for 844?? I needs it!
Originally posted by microbusss - April 01 2010 : 08:44:32 AM
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I'm not 100% certain, but you may want to try 146.550 MHz. Give it a shot anyway!
    
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Posted - April 01 2010 : 7:57:28 PM
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| ah ty its on the web somewheres I'll bet
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 Posted - April 02 2010 : 7:57:03 PM
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Sigh. I'm disappointed.
All I could snap was the locomotive and tender, from a distance of 100 yards, in the parking lot of my workplace. I was the only one at work at 8:41AM MST when she pulled out of Cheyenne.
I will upload the one decent pic I have sometime this weekend.
She has to pass right by again at the end of her tour, so maybe I will have better luck on her westbound trek home.
And there is always Frontier Days in July.
Have a nice Easter, one and all.
-ThOR
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Posted - April 02 2010 : 8:07:14 PM
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this close enough?
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Posted - April 02 2010 : 8:10:08 PM
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nice photos,new camera ken
Edited by - catfordken on April 02 2010 8:11:03 PM
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Posted - April 02 2010 : 8:12:14 PM
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Nice shots indeed! Hope you had a blast, microbusss.
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Posted - April 02 2010 : 8:20:32 PM
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yeah I sure did
found this loco in Chappell
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Posted - April 03 2010 : 12:02:31 AM
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Great photos, thanks microbusss,
Mike
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Posted - April 03 2010 : 12:11:10 AM
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| This loco was numbered 8444 cause of a diesel with 844 on it which ironically still exists as does a new UP loco with 8444
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 Posted - April 03 2010 : 12:12:38 AM
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Great shots, Microbusss, you lucky duck! What a beautiful beastie.
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Posted - April 03 2010 : 12:19:25 AM
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lucky duck? I has one
Took it at Cabella's in Sidney,NE Just for you NKP
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Posted - April 03 2010 : 02:01:19 AM
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AFLAC!
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 1:59:47 PM
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Missed it AGAIN Thursday...we started tracking it around lunchtime...and when it got between Archer curve and Cheyenne proper...it sat in a siding near Frontier Oil Refinery for about 45 minutes, and I had to get back to work. I counted 6 container trains and a grain hauler staged near the throat of the yard at 3:10PM, so it would take over an hour to clear it all out for 844 to come on through.
Oh well...my one lousy picture from it's beginning run to Harlingen, Texas is no match for Ben's GREAT Nebraska pics. Nice ones, Ben!
There is always Frontier Days in a few months, too.
I was told parts of the turbine train and a DD40X are somewhere out here, too.
I have seen a CNW E8 and a UP E9 (City of Denver) being worked on last year. There must be some real gems in the roundhouse. I gotta get out there as soon as I have some time.
Have a good one, gents (and ladies).
-R
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Posted - May 02 2010 : 5:06:40 PM
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Figured I'd make ONE of you guys jealous of my pics
Deffinately gonna go to that train show onthe 22nd theoldreliable I'll be there wearing a BNSF shirt
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