Silver Lining

While I don't disagree with the things said above, I will have to chime in and say that from a steam-fans perspective, the last time I looked the UP has 2 very huge steam engines that operate around the system.
I first rode behind 8444(before it got its old 844 number back) in 1968, the same trip we chased our last freights from Farmington to Alamosa. We were doing 90 at times. Pretty impressive stuff.
Since then we have had 3985 and 844 for decades. No its not the Alamosa roundhouse, but it has spread further across the country than the Alamosa Roundhouse ever could so more folks have come to enjoy those steam engines.
Yes the whole Alamosa shops and complex would have been neat to preserve but without a NG train
operating from there, it had no real purpose when down the road the C&TS was trying to simply survive.
I can remember sneaking in the side door to the roundhouse to see 493 and 483!!!
Greg