After arriving at Sacramento on September 27, 2012 for the celebration of the 150 anniversary of the signing of the Pacific Railroad Act, UP 844 is headed back east on October 4, 2012.
844 sits at the place where the Transcontinental Railroad started Milepost 1,776 right at the corner of I and Second streets this is the spot where the CP Big 4 placed the first rails of UPs main line.
You know what - that was awesome! I caught myself tensing up as she crossed over the new rails just outside the museum, and that last scene is glorious! Cool shots - you must have been running!
Very cool video you put together there, don't you just love it when you are shooting video, with audio, and people start asking questions?? Was not too bad on this one, good video.
Trust me, I love SP as much as anyone, but UP naturally favors their engines because they actually have a steam program. I still say it's better than any steam arrangement SP ever had. When Ed Moyers was in charge of SP near the very end, they were having a hard enough time running a RR, so steam was at the bottom of their priority list.
They will allow those locomotives if the owner has enough insurance money. Of course they favor their own (UP) steam locomotives, since they own them and have an official steam program. It's still far better than any steam arrangement that SP ever had.
BNSF has no problems with foreign steam on their RR. I worked for the SP and in the later years they were quite liberal with allowing steam out on the rails. You're incorrect about SP's policy. There were many steam excursions in the 80s and 90s that SP allowed. I won't list all of them here. Look at my RU-vid picture taken in Mt. View in 1984,
Good, yes, and good, no. They only allow UP steam to run on the old SP. The SP 2472 can't get out of Niles Canyon because the UP won't allow it, nor will they allow SP 4449 on their RR. Sad.
True enough, but SP never had a steam program. And understandably so with DJR saying in 1958 that no steam loco would ever turn a wheel on his RR. considering that, I think they came around to allowing it quite well.
They need a less modern looking helper locomotive to put behind that thing than the modern ones they always use. Like, at the very least the Centennial or E9's.
Notice that all the yellow jackets stayed behind in Sacramneto. zNo wise guys allowed in Wyoming or Colorado, We have anough of them there already. LOL
