Re: Historic "UP" steam

Everett Lueck Wrote:
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> John, we could make a list of all of the pre-UP UP
> engines that we would have the UP adopt. I would
> wish for the 819, T&P 610 (Russo will agree with
> this one), and the pair of ex SP mikes, 743 and
> 786, and those are just the ones in Texas,
> Louisiana and Arkansas that are semi-serviceable
> at present, or in the process of restoration.
> In your neck of the woods, what about the SP
> pacifics, and WP 94 as well as 4449, and the UP
> pacific in Portland.
>
> Any others?


That would be 745 and 786. The 786 DID operate over the UP with a pilot engine from Georgetown Texas, where she was rebuilt, to McNeil, the connection with the then Austin @Northwestern.