Wonderful view of UP 8444 from Highway overpass of the former Union Pacific's downtown Denver Yard (long gone-!) location. Now occupied by the Rockies baseball field (Coors Field) and parking lots.

The 1982 NRHS Convention was held in Denver, Colorado. The schedule included an excursion trip from Denver to Sterling and return on July 16, 1982. Union Pacific 8444 was the power for this trip. Union Pacific Class FEF-3 8444 was built by the American Locomotive Company in December 1944. She has 8

In May of 1989, ceremonies were held in Los Angeles to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal; The Last of the Great Stations. Here is a series of images taken May 5-, 1989 including the "race" up Cajon Pass between the SP #4449 and the UP #8444. Hope you like them!

Union Pacific's fabled steam team, the FEF 8444 and Challenger 3985, doubled-headed to the first Railfair held at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento in 1981. I was fortunate to come in possession of a packet of prints of the return eastbound move across Donner and down into Nevada

The UP 8444 East with the 125th Kansas Statehood Special had dome car 7006 crossing steel trestle west of Deer Trail, CO, 8-27-1986. Adventures in railroading along the old Kansas Pacific line.

In May of 1989, the SP 4449 and UP 8444 came to town to celebrate the 50th Anniversay of the LAUPT (now known as the Los Angeles Union Station). 1. Gaviota railroad trestle, one of Amtrak's most photographed landmarks. 2. The locomotives started their initial approach to

UP 844 4-8-4 "Northern" has been in continuous service on Union Pacific since it was built in 1944 by American Locomotive Company; renumbered from UP 844 to UP 8444 in June 1962 to avoid confusion with newly delivered GP30 844; renumbered back to UP 844 on June 2, 1989 (27 years later) after the GP30 had been retired.

Mark Perri photographed UP 8444 in Nunn, Colorado on May 31, 1982. Bob P.S. I continue to be amazed at modern photo editing software considering this is an approximatel 1/2 inch by 3/4 inch section of a Kodachrome slide. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit

Yesterday, I posted a photo of UP 8444 and commented on how modern photo editing software could give surprisingly good results. I was asked what the original slide looked like before editing. Here is an unprocessed low-resolution original and …

27 Years ago today ! On May 8th 1989, The SP 4449 is loosing the race up the Cajon Pass with the UP 8444 Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/08/16 18:26 by miralomarail.