Union Pacific Steam Shop Update, about a week later.

This video has done extremely well in one week on YouTube. This channel has 17K subscribers and the video has been watched by over 27,000 viewers.  It has generated over sixty comments and questions on a variety of issues, related to the U.P. Steam Shop. If interested, check out the comments.

Kent: If you need help for embedding videos, hit me up with an e-mail and I will write out the steps.

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Which artic will be first?  The C&O one or UPP 4014?

Dominic Mazoch posted:

Which artic will be first?  The C&O one or UPP 4014?

Obviously the C&O 1309.

Thanks for posting, Kent. Enjoy seeing the progress.

For interested folks .... Ed Dickens has made his email address available to anyone that has questions about 4014.

Tranz4mr posted:

The latest video from the UP Steam Shop

FROM THE WEBMASTER:
I sure wish you would learn how to EMBED a video instead of just pasting the URL here.
You're welcome...

Rich

Thank you for taking the time to embed the video.

Due to a busy job I rarely get to use a home computer anymore so I read and post  to your forum from a phone with a tiny screen making it a bit harder to embed. Posting a link instead of embedding a video does save certain UP Steam Manager averse viewers from seeing an image that might disturb them.  

But Yes. You are correct - next time I will gladly embed the video.

Thanks again!

Thanks for posting the updates.  I look forward to the steam shop tour in  July.

Union Pacific 844 "The 2017 Home Plate Special" Valley, NE To Council Bluffs, IA - June 12, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU2FNUNXccQ

The UP 844 and chased it from Valley, NE to Council Bluffs, Iowa. UP 844 looked great in the open country, and in town. UP 844 will be in Omaha, NE on display as the 2017 Home Plate Special right outside the CWS until June 26th. Daily you can visit 844 and take pictures or just check it out. Check UP's webpage for details. Ed Dickens is also meeting with the rail-fans at every stop.

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‘Living Legend’ returns: No. 844 attracts a welcoming party of 500 fans

By RICK BROWN  /  Hub Staff Writer Jun 13, 2017

KEARNEY — A loud blast from the whistle of Union Pacific’s steam locomotive No. 844 welcomed more than 500 people who gathered to see the engine arrive in Kearney on Monday morning. The refurbished steam locomotive, the last one built for Union Pacific and put into service in 1944, stopped in Kearney as part of the company’s 2017 Home Plate tour. Donna Kush, vice president of public affairs for Union Pacific, helped organize the event as a “pre-celebration” of the 150th anniversary of the joining of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.

“We are taking advantage of the steam train coming through communities like Kearney, Grand Island and Columbus today, and presenting those communities with a commemorative golden spike to help show them our appreciation for being a railroad town,” Kush said. The railroad came through Kearney about 150 years ago. “We very much appreciate the relationship we have with communities like Kearney that really grew up and prospered early because of the railroad being there,” she said.

No. 844 pulled a series of restored passenger cars into Kearney. A passing freight train blocked the view of No. 844 to the crowd in the parking lot near North Railroad Street. When the steam engine came into view, the engine sounded its very loud whistle. Railroad buffs gathered to talk about trains with the engineers and curious onlookers photographed the engine. Officials of both the city and the company spoke about the relationship of the trains and the community.

Kush noted that a stop like this helps community members look at railroads in a new light.

“Sometimes people look at trains and only see them blocking the crossing,” she said. “They often don’t have the appreciation for what’s actually in those trains. Everything from materials that help produce electricity that helps keep our lights on, to automobiles, to the food we eat everyday — virtually everything you touch in your everyday life either came on a train or it was produced by something that was hauled on a train.

Source: AP - Associated Press  &  Kearney Hub News, 13 East 22nd Street, Kearney NE 68847  June 13, 2017

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Union Pacific's 'Living Legend' No. 844 locomotive

rolls into area ahead of College World Series

By Kent Sievers / World-Herald staff photographer   Jun 13, 2017    Updated Jun 13, 2017

Union Pacific’s “Living Legend” No. 844 steam locomotive rolled into Council Bluffs on Monday following after its journey from Cheyenne, Wyoming.From June 16 to 27, No. 844 will be parked near TD Ameritrade Park for the College World Series. The display will be open from noon to 7 p.m. every day but June 24 and 25.

Steam Locomotive No. 844 is the last steam locomotive that was built for Union Pacific Railroad. It was delivered in 1944 and served as a high-speed passenger engine.  When diesels took over all of the passenger train duties, No. 844 was placed in freight service in Nebraska between 1957 and 1959. It was saved from being scrapped in 1960 and held for special service. The engine has run hundreds of thousands of miles as a Union Pacific ambassador.

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Source: AP Associated Press  /  World - Herald • 1314 Douglas St. Omaha, NE 68102-1138. Phone: 402-444-1000. 1-800-284-6397.

The continuing saga, of “The Living Legend”

The Home Plate Special - YouTube - June 16, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...ature=em-uploademail

Play time, about one minute.

Ed Dickens at frame: 0:29

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