With engineer Ed Dickens at the throttle, other members of UP's steam team ride in the cab of UP 844 as the train slowly picked up speed, departing the depot at Greeley northbound.
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Considering the hundreds of people that were present to check out UP 844 and the Cheyenne Frontier Days train, I was pretty happy I managed to get this roster shot in Greeley with only a single person in the shot!
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With its station stop in Greeley complete, UP 844 slowly starts to pull north, make sure everyone is clear of the tracks as it rolls. Starting up, UP 844 lets a puff of smoke out of the stack.
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UP 844 makes a stop in Greeley as crowds of people flock to check out the train. A few passengers from Greeley boarded the train for the remainder of the trip to Cheyenne.
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It doesn't get much better than this. Spartan cab SD40-2 leading a southbound manifest on a fantastic, sunny March afternoon. This train would ultimately pull in to the yard at La Salle a few miles south and tie up for the day.
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Looks good. Sounds better. UP's La Salle local is headed south on the main at Greeley as it crosses the 8th street grade crossing. The trio of EMD motors, three of which were SD40-2s, sounded fantastic.
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This northbound is crossing 10th Street in Greeley, passing right next to the Greeley Freight Station Museum. If you haven't visited the museum and get the chance to in the future, I highly recommend going. It is an amazing experience. The mainline on the HO layout is 28 scale miles long.
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A southbound manifest passes through the south switch of Greeley. This is an interesting control point in that it is actually a crossover. The siding continues south on the east side of the main to service some industries. Not a bad looking signal bridge.
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Just south of Greeley, the ZLADV runs underneath US-34, which offers a nice wide angle shot looking down on UP 4381 and train. Black and white seemed appropriate for this particular shot.
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While the engineers side of UP 9871 (ex-DRGW 5401) looked practically pristine, the conductors side looks like this. Taggers did a real number on this Tunnel Motor...unfortunately.
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This UP funeral train crosses the 10th street grade crossing in Greeley, right next to the Greeley Freight Station Museum. The train was moving fairly slowly by the museum and it drew a bit of a crowd out too!
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In this string of 17 tunnel motors headed for retirement, there was a single patched Espee unit. UP 8726 was originally delivered as SP 8526 in December 1978.
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Even though it has received a full repaint, you can tell that this was originally a Rio Grande tunnel motor because it has a chopped fuel tank. The space between the lead truck and the fuel tank was unique to the Rio Grande T-2's.
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DRGW 5342 is disguised as UP 2882 as it heads for retirement at Burnham in Denver.
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A roster shot of UP 9871 (originally DRGW 5401) on its way to retirement. This unit spent a lot of time in Colorado before it was patched.
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