Wayne Hoskin Wrote:
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> Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> This heavier train
> > had two F units assisting 2816 over the grades.
> > [attachment 66164 heli-13.jpg]
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> I wish the UP would use some E8's (which I believe
> they have???) behind the Big Boy, rather than
> those thumping great huge whatever they are
> diseasals!
> They would be far more attractive AND
> unobtrusive.
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> Wayne from Oz
The E-units, like 4-6-6-4 3985 are not operational, nor is the Centennial (6936). E-unit 951 was behind 8444 in 1989 when I rode the cab from Rawlins to Laramie. I have seen the 6936 a couple of times, and once by accident on July 4, 1999 shooting some stuff at Gibbon, Nebraska. I hear the heritage diesels have been abandoned.
Greg