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| Author: | bobyar2001 [ Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | 8444, June 1968 |
On the branch at Yoder, Wyoming. It looked and sounded good then, but was not getting the long-term care it is now receiving. http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?d ... Jun_68.jpg |
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| Author: | Wooly [ Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8444, June 1968 |
Yoder is on the branch that turns north at Egbert Wy off of the Overland main about 25 miles east of Archer Hill.......................................Wooly |
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| Author: | Greg Scholl [ Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8444, June 1968 |
I was on that trip. I was 17 at the time. A guy was standing in the vestibule with me timing mileposts, and we supposedly hit 90 on the way b back to Cheyenne. They took the engine off at Cheyenne and ran with diesels back to Denver. Somehow, my dad had the truck camper at Cheyenne, as I remember we got off there. We wandered into the engine facility, and my brother and I were photographing all the "Saved" engines in there, including 4023, 3985, 5511, 833, etc, when a RR cop ran us out of there. I remember everyone complaining of the steep price for the UP trip, which was $50.00. That included meals, and some complained that the dining car menu was beans and franks. Funny the things you remember. My first encounter with the 800!! Steamingly, Greg Scholl |
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| Author: | Wooly [ Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8444, June 1968 |
Greg where did that trip originate & go to. Reason for asking is they had a challenger trip in July of 2003 that was supposed to go to Yoder & on over to South Morrill Ne & turn there & return but went instead to Laramie & return. TIA......................................Wooly |
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| Author: | Greg Scholl [ Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8444, June 1968 |
The trip started in Denver and went to Yoder via Cheyenne. We turned gingerly on the wye up there. I just checked this in a book, called "Fifty years of UP Steam Excursions" by Lloyd Stagner. The trip date was 6/1/68` The book is quite nice, soft cover, and chronicles through 2003. One thing I remember vividly, was hanging my head out the vestibule on the way up there from Denver, and not having to worry about cinders, that I was so used to in the east. You just got a light spray of steam for the most part. That year we did the 8444 trip then headed to Durango, following freights on the D&RGW for three straight days. That was the end of an era! Greg Scholl |
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| Author: | Phil Mulligan [ Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8444, June 1968 |
My first 8444 trip was in Fall, 1970. As I recall the Rocky Club ran a Spring trip and the Intermountain Chapter a Fall trip every year. We went Denver to Julesburg via the City of Denver route both ways. At the first movie runpast, after the engine went by, I hunched my shoulders, pulled down my Reading Ramble cap and waited for the hail of cinders. I looked around and saw that nobody else was doing that. Oil burner. Intermountain Chapter's ex-Q office car was on the back and I reeled off the return miles at 79 per standing on the veranda. |
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