UP 1996 at Rochelle! With my Pictures!

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Well here’s the story: On Tuesday night a guy came to the park. I started to talk to him and he said he wanted a picture of 1996 and thought it would come from 12-6am. Now I was going to stay, but I’m like What the heck, I wouldn’t of go a good picture at night. So he stayed there ALL night. When I woke up I’m thinking he won’t be there. Now I came to the park around 9-10. That same guy was there! I asked him if he got the shot but he said he didn’t. It was coming through any minute! But I did miss the Rio Grande Hertage. That came through that night too. So I waited and sure enough, it came. And what a beautiful loco she was. WOW! It was also going pretty slow because they where working on the crossing. But when I got there tuesday night, I wasn’t thinking of that unit. I just wanted to go railfanning. So that was a HUGE bonus to the trip. I also added in the mix of pics a SOO SD60, a BNSF executive, and one of my best shots.

UP 1996

UP 1996 #2

UP 1996 #3

Here’s the SOO unit.

SOO SD60

Here’s the BNSF executive.

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Here is the video! Please turn off the sound. It is HORRIBLE! My friend took it on my digtal so it bad. The quality of the video is so-so.

So here it is.

http://s193.photobucket.com/albums/z129/JR7582/?action=view&current=HPIM0793.flv

And again, put it on mute. It will be alot better.

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Must of been fun! Especially having a friend there also.

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Here it is in Fife, Washington last month.

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UP has to get some of the SSW Cotton Belt Route Heritage Repaint ACF Center Flow Hoppers behind the UP 1996 Southern Pacific SD70ACe to make a heritage theme train.

Andrew

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I posted the pictures up top. Enjoy!

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The BNSF execuitive unit in in Chicago??? Jeese.

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I hope that’s what that paint scheam is called. If not please tell me.

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What I meant to say was The SOO unit came thorugh. MY cvomputer weas taking forever to load the images, so when I saw tha t you said the execuitive unit, I thought it was one of the demo schemes that BNSF has. My bad. Nice Pix!!! I am still waiting to see 1989 and 1996, but I think it will happen soon. Keep it up!!!

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Too bad CN does’nt have a heritage scheme, or CPR if it brought back maroon paint

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Yeah, they should. So should BNSF, a GN Big Sky blue would look pretty cool on a new loco. Same with the yellow Bonnet, and BN Cascade green.

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Well, I dont know what you guys up north call them ,but to Texas railfans its just another Grestien Green machine…Their on coal trains here every day ! How many pics of them would you like? Danny
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I don’t care what you say, that thing is ugly!

Phil

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I agree that the UP1996 is the least attractive of the Heritage units. Ugly may be in the eye of the beholder, but when I first saw a photo of this one, I thought they would have been better to just use the Black Widow scheme, one of the classiest diesel paint jobs of all time.

For the record, my vote for best looking UP Heritage scheme is that of C&NW, mainly because they adhered closely to the original.

Also, great photos, WCfan. Thanks.