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Re: UP Steam Club update (4/24/19)
Author: Cprr
Date: 04-24-2019 - 19:43
SP Train #27 Wrote:
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> Jeff T. Wrote:
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> > Very sad...should have planned on having the
> 844
> > and 4449 meet in Ogden from the get go which
> would
> > have been more appropriate anyhow for this
> > anniversary verses two UP steamers.
>
> Not really. The Daylight locomotives were almost
> never used on the Overland Route.
Agree, but if you are going to repeat the nose to nose photo with "modern" locomotives from the railroad companies 150 years ago, then any SPRR loco would do. But let's be honest, the 4449 would total upstage the 4014. Unless you got the cab forward working....
They are reproducing the nose to nose at the Promatory site also
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> Jeff T. Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> >
> > Very sad...should have planned on having the
> 844
> > and 4449 meet in Ogden from the get go which
> would
> > have been more appropriate anyhow for this
> > anniversary verses two UP steamers.
>
> Not really. The Daylight locomotives were almost
> never used on the Overland Route.
Agree, but if you are going to repeat the nose to nose photo with "modern" locomotives from the railroad companies 150 years ago, then any SPRR loco would do. But let's be honest, the 4449 would total upstage the 4014. Unless you got the cab forward working....
They are reproducing the nose to nose at the Promatory site also
