Has anyone seen UP 928??

davew833 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:23 pm

Has anyone seen UP E-8 #928 lately? This, the last of Union Pacific E-8's was donated to the Western Heritage Museum in Omaha after retirement in 1980 and was most recently seen back on UP property at Cheyenne, where it was slated to be "parted out" after years of neglect. Just wondering if it was still around.

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Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:42 am

A post on another board I saw recently said it was still at Cheyenne last year. Steve Lee has generally been good at hanging onto things with historical value.

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Kevin Gillespie · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:48 am

What has happened to UP 928 at the hands of the Western Heritage Museum is an outrage, as I have said on this board before. But there is at least one other UP E-8 still around, #942 at the Orange Empire Railroad Museum. She is intact and close to operational if not actually running. 928 was stripped out by the UP before being donated to the museum.

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Brian Norden · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:05 pm

> But
> there is at least one other UP E-8 still
> around, #942 at the Orange Empire Railroad
> Museum. She is intact and close to
> operational if not actually running.

The 942 does run at Orange Empire Railway Musuem. It is one of our group of 6 (or so) units that our diesel maintenance group keep in operational condition. It is often used with our UP and other passenger cars during special events. But the darndest thing is to see it during regular weekend operation when it may be matched with with only one or two green passenger cars (occasionally pulling our single ex-DL&W commute car).

[To keep the diesels operational, they are in a rotation pool. This pool also involves straight electric locomotives on an open-bench and caboose train. When 942 or ATSF 98 is used a passenger train is assembled. The passenger train has also been used with other diesels. Also used on the "mainline" on a rotational basis is Pacific Electric car 418.

The 942 is painted a generic, dull yellow; sometime in the future it will get a better paint job. Because of the commutter service on the C&NW in Chicago it was modified and some of these are externally visable.

Brian Norden

PS OERM has a webpage about UP 942:

Union Pacific 942