I have seen U.P. 7337 (an AC6044CW) sitting on the siding on the EJ&E at Liberty Street in Aurora (next to BNSF Eola Yard) for three days now all by itself. Today I checked and she is running but has not moved for three days. Anybody know what might be going on with this unit? Below is a picture of her on another day in McAllister, Oklahoma.
i remember UP 7337. i saw him when i was getting my senior pictures taken in Chippewa Falls. he was leading a coal train with 6060 and WC 6620 was on a parallel track. 7337 was running, but 6060 wasnt. so i guess 7337 has a bad habit of doing that maybe? 
Great picture
I saw it sitting there on Sunday when I crossed the tracks at Liberty St. I’m not sure why it was there. I was guessing bad order or perhaps the engine was set out by the BNSF (posistioned at the top of the Eola J lead) to be pick-up by the UP. I don’t think that it’s there anymore. I’m just down the street, so I’ll check it out on my way to work later.
CC
Checked yesterday… still there. Must be a bad-order.
BTW… When I went to check this out, I was headed west on LIberty St and had to wait for a SB UP coal drag. After it cleared, I proceeded west on Liberty St & then turned north on Eola Rd. It took no more than 3-4 minutes to get from the Liberty St crossing to the bridge over the BNSF Eola Yard on Eola Rd and a BNSF manifest was already heading up the “J” connection to follow the coal drag. When I looked to my left, there was also a stack train waiting to go the “J”. A lot of a action on the “J” now.
CC
Maybe all this action means less drayage on Chicago streets?
Well, here we are more than a week after U.P. number 7337 was first spotted at Eola on the “J” and she is still there. Must be something very wrong with her that they have yet to move her for repair (?).
I went thru there about 1 p.m. today and I only got a quick look – but I think the locomotive has been joined by what looked like a covered hopper – it was tough viewing with all of the traffic on Liberty Street this afternoon.
Yes, there is definitely a covered hopper coupled to the rear of the unit. I went by there on my way home this afternoon (about 3:30 p.m.) and went up into commercial business area that parallels the “J” and was able to get pretty close to the locomotive and was able to verify from the sound that she is running. She is “passing gas” (i.e. her compressed air tanks are venting) about every six or seven seconds 100% of the time. There was a railroad truck near her (a “J” truck I think) but I could not see who was there.