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Re: Why 4449 instead of 2472?
Author: Doom
Date: 01-08-2019 - 19:14

Beer & Pizza Wrote:
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> Setting aside the question of Union Pacific
> allowing non-UP steam locomotives on its main
> line, why do so many insist that 4449 be part of
> the celebration when, in real life, the GS4s were
> not regularly assigned to Southern Pacific's
> Overland route?
>
> The 2472 did operate on Overland route and would
> be a more historically accurate representative of
> the non-Union Pacific partner of the
> Transcontinental Railroad.

Neither one of the exSP's will be there.

Feel better now?

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