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Any news? If I was UP I'd be promoting the heck out of this.

I live a short 2 hours from Omaha. Their zoo just completed a 73 million dollar renovation and was one of three zoos to rescue/fly 17 elephants from Africa's drought.  I visited it last week with my family. It's well done. Anyway, they promoted all of it before, during, and after.

My guess - no promotion because there is nothing to promote.

Not being a subscriber to trainorders.com, can someone tell us how she looks in the photo.  If 844 was being steamed up yesterday, would it be correct to assume the boiler has passed the FRA inspection?  What would be the progression of steps from initial steam up to be road ready for the Cheyenne Frontier Days run? As I recall from similar reports with 611's rebuild, it wasn't too many weeks between steam-up and test run.

Union Pacific E9's in Omaha.

There is a group of You Tubers that are also following the 844 Steam Shop Story. This video shows the staging yard in Omaha, Nebraska. The play time is seven minutes and you will see all twenty passenger cars, that will be used for Frontier Days , on July 23, 2016. 

Filmed on June 14, 2016. These passenger cars are beautiful and the U.P. Yellow is very impressive. These You Tube Channels talk about, that the Union Pacific Corp. has purchased liability insurance for Frontier Days, and if the 844 is ready and used. The insurance carrier wants diesel power with the 844, for back up. If it was to break down. The 844 can not generate enough electricity to power 20 passenger cars, so these E9's will be used along with SD 70's doing the pushing.

This is the "Chet chat" on You Tube. 

Gary

trainroomgary posted:

 

The 844 can not generate enough electricity to power 20 passenger cars, so these E9's will be used along with SD 70's doing the pushing.

This is the "Chet chat" on You Tube. 

Gary

I thought the UP had a HEP car for that...

Genrator UP 207

As far as I know the 844, or any steam locomotive for that matter, can generate only enough electricity for its own lights and radio.

Rusty

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TexasSP asks Who am I and how do I know, what evidence to I have. Fair question. I know 95% of the people on this forum don't know me other than my posts. If I am going to post something like the status of 844, I'm not going to make things up just to see how many people 'fall for it'. Not the way I roll. You get the reputation of a BS'er pretty quickly that way.

Now, how do I know? I personally know Ed, his fireman, and the now retired diesel heritage fleet master mechanic. I had available photographic evidence of what I posted back then with the cab and all. I asked if I could post the pictures, but it was requested that I didn't. Out of respect and not wanting to loose lose my favored status of getting inside information is why the photos were not posted.

Over and out.

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UP No. 844 Moved Under Her Own Power Thursday

June 17, 2016 Trains Magazine

http://trn.trains.com/news/new...re/2016/06/17-up-844

RELATED TOPICS: WEST | UNION PACIFIC | STEAM/PRESERVATION | RAILFANING

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Working toward returning their much loved 4-8-4 to the high iron, the Union Pacific steam crew test fired No. 844 Thursday after a lengthy rebuild, sources in Wyoming tell Trains News Wire.

No. 844 built up steam pressure and moved back and forth just outside the shop, blowing out dirt and scale from the cylinder cocks. Ahead is additional work, installation of the jacketing and lagging, and a test run in advance of the July 23 Denver Post Frontier Days Special between Denver and Cheyenne.

No. 844, the last new steam locomotive built for the UP in 1944 and categorized as “never retired” since 1962, has been out of service since 2013. After working to fix a problem with over-rolled tubes, the crew decided to complete a 1,472-day inspection on the locomotive. After opening up the engine, additional work was necessary, and in between all of this, UP acquired Big Boy No. 4014 and gave the Cheyenne shop a makeover.

Trains will cover No. 844’s return to service in a special issue, "Big Steam is Back," as well as 10 other large locomotives running this year.

Gary

Dieselbob posted:

Blaming the MU box might have worked if others, including many of Ed's predecessors hadn't used those very boxes for over forty years without a single reported issue. Never mind the fact that even if the box DID malfunction, Ed's counter-action was COMPLETELY wrong.

The MU box was checked and not a thing wrong with it. It was a major brain fart by Dickens & Co running 844. They're lucky the incident wasn't worse then flattened drivers 

"CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Working toward returning their much loved 4-8-4 to the high iron, the Union Pacific steam crew test fired No. 844 Thursday after a lengthy rebuild, sources in Wyoming tell Trains News Wire."

Congratulations to Union Pacific, Ed Dickens, and all of his steam crew and support staff for reaching another important milestone.

We all have another beautiful steam engine that we can read about, ride behind, listen to, and take photos of.  Let's simply enjoy this people instead of continuing to complain, find fault, and point fingers. 

 

 

 

Clarence, I think that you are confusing flattening/flat spotting with DEFLATING. Nope you can't DEFLATE a steel tire on a steel wheel, but if a wheel is dragged with the brakes set, or any other reason that the wheel is not rolling as fast as the train is moving, you can/will create a flat spot on the tire, which will result in a rough ride, and pound the track structure.

Doug

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