Mystery UP Units Identified

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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There has been a lot of speculation about what is under the tarps. Here it is:

There will be 5 units, MP, WP, CNW, SP, and MKT. MP will be Blue scheme, WP is in New Image (***ized with the silver trucks though). CNW will be Lightning Strike, MKT will be Green and Yellow (I am told also a ***ized scheme). I was not told what scheme the SP unit will be. There will be no DRGW.

UP is hoping to have 3 of the units there on Saturday for the unveiling.

These are NOT Military decorated units as some are speculating.

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David,

Cool, what fun it will be to catch one of these units on the point! Thanks for the heads up.

BTW - For those that might be interested the Portola Railroad Museum has a newly created discussion forum at http://wplives.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi, and everybody is invited to visit and join up.

Jim

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you’re welcome Jimmy, I’ll tell you more off the board in a few minutes

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That will sooo coool. I can just hear the UP Dispatcher call MP on the Scanner.
Allan.

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Thats really cool. If only UP had done this because they realized they needed to reach out to railfans by creating a link to the past rather than to enfornce a copyright.

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Watch out before wctransfer gets on here and posts like heck! That is awesome! To bad I live in the east. By the way Coborn35, how’d you get all of those trains on the bottom of your post?

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Yah, me and alec wont probably see them because we live in Minnesota.

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Nice to see that UP is displaying pride in its heritage.

Please forgive me for wondering but, is UP also doing for this due to the “trademarks” issues? From what I understand, if a company uses an old symbol from its past at least one time then its still protected.

Anyway, in either case I’m glad they’re doing this. Would love to see a RIO GRANDE Tunnel Motor! [:D]

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I agree it would be nice if they did a SD40T-2 in DRGW colors. I think they should also do an SP tunnel motor too.

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I would assume that there are a few “unpatched” Rio Grande locomotives out there. I know of at least one that works out of Colorado Springs. I always see it downtown with a Rio Grande caboose coupled to it, I am guessing used for transfer. I am with you on the tunnel motor, AntonioFP45.

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Coborn35 : What’s the last locomotive in your little parade at the bottom of your message? A Conrail twin SD-70? An SD-140 perhaps?

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Hmm, this will be interesting, and a nice change of color, no matter how small (5 units compared to X number on roster). These are all SD70ACe’s correct? New aged technology, combined with the golden oldies, so to speak.

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I like to take a guess, an EMD DD70?

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I’d guess a dual cab SD70M.[;)]

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You mean SD70ACe. Secondly,The light Blue is NOT correct on that unit. The correct color for the MoPac is a very dark Blue. Allan.

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No, I don’t mean a SD70ACe. When EMD built its double diesel units for the Union Pacific during the SD40 era, they called it a DDA40X. So to go with the EMD model classifacation I’d think it would be called a DDA70X. [:D] Just for fun.

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Coborn35 : Did you change the locomotives on your train parade, or am I confused?

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No D&RGW? Yet they are doing SP? There are 15 unpatched Riogrande diesels still around and how many SP units?

Exactly.

Ridiculous.

Josh

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Ok now that you made it more clearly.

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BNSF railfan: huh? I don’t see a blue locomotive in Coborn35’s parade-do you?