SP 0-6-0 Wrote:
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> More trivia from a TO post:
>
> It was Steve Lee's first trip with 8444 (true?)
>
> 8444 derailed on a wye.
>
> Source:
>
> "Date: 09/06/06 16:58
> Re: Any pics of 8444 derailed in Vegas, ca.
> 1979-80?
> Author: tolland
>
> More information on this incident: It was May of
> 1980, according to Steve, to celebrate the 75th
> anniversary of Las Vegas. They took 8444 around
> the wye and were not sure about the curvature of
> the wye. They had no choice because the next place
> west was Los Angeles. They crept around the wye
> and the drivers went on the ground. Steve says
> that it took 4 SD40's to drag 844 through the wye
> curvature to straight track, then it was rerailed
> in 15 minutes. It was Steve's first trip with
> 8444."
>
> [www.trainorders.com]
> ,1234686

According to His Majesty, UP Steam God Ed, that incident must have happened a few years before Lee got involved and began degrading the program.

He also said it sounds like something that he'd do.