UP Challenger in town

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The UP’s Challenger has stopped here in Boone IA for the night. I am by no means a UP fan but this engine is frickin HUGE!!! I took some photos of it to share with all of you. It passed by my house when it came into town to cross over the crossover and into the yard. It will be leaving here at 8:oo in the morning and will take some more pics to share. Enjoy!

Here it is stopped and getting ready to back up. The grass is my yard.

Here it is backing up. My daughter and son are on the left. The boy on the right is my son’s loud freind. This shot also taken from my yard.

Here it sits in the yard.

Here are my kids standing next to the driver wheels of the Challenger.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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wow! If there were tracks in my backyard and something like that showed up I think that either I’d faint or I’d soil myself! (just kidding!)

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No photos.

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WOW ! Thanks for the great photo’s of this BIG engine as there’s no way it could make it near me in Mid-Michigan. I can’t wait till my Athearn gets here !!!

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WOW!
you must be one lucky guy to find things like that driving by your backyard!
great pictures!
thanks for sharing!

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I got this off of the UP site. It gives the schedule of where the Challenger will be next:

http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/houston.shtml

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cool link! the GPS tracking link at the top of the page is really neat !
you can almost zoom in to jeremy’s lawn size !

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You must model prototype.
I drove 220 miles June of 2002 to see it at West Chicago Illinois yard.

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Hey that’s funny. If you keep clicking on it it zooms all the way down to street level with the street names. Cool. I just got back from the Kate Shelly high bridge. I’l post some pictures of the challenger going over it when I get them downloaded to my album.

Jeremy