theconductor Wrote:
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> Daylight Fan Wrote:
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> > UP 844.. then 8444 ran through those curves
> back
> > in 1989 when they ran the trip to Bend, OR and
> > return to Portland and left out of Portland
> Union
> > Station. This was before the curves were
> > re-worked later making them abit sharper...with
> > 4-8-4's not in mind operating through there but
> > modern railroad diesel operations. The 3985 is
> an
> > articulated locomotive so the engine itself
> went
> > through those curves ok however there was some
> > concern about the centipede tender when they
> > arrived in Portland on the Northwest tour back
> in
> > 2005. The steam crew said the nose of the
> engine
> > stuck way out while rounding them upon their
> > arrival at Albina yard.
>
> It did! I was on the bluff above the curve
> watching out of curiosity. I'm glad nothing was
> out on running track 1 at the time!

Yes, as far as the 3985 part is concerned.

My point was that 844 did not go the station; the trip it ran to Bend originated and terminated at the Albina freight house, and that is as close as 844 got to the station.