Trains magazine’s Andy Cummings just sent me a photo from the Union Pacific Heritage SD70ACe Locomotives photo shoot for the Trains News Wire.
Enjoy!
Bergie
That’s really impressive. I wish I could be there to see them.
Thanks for posting the photo!
Eighty-four-forty-four LIVES!!! They even have a heritage number previously worn by the 4-8-4! Looks good UP!
Denied. Need to be a suscriber. What can I say, I am one of those guys that likes to buy his from the store.
Yea i know what you mean canazar!!! I was excited to see the pic, and I was smacked down by the red letters!!!
So, stick a crowbar in your wallet and get a subscription. It saves money and time and gasoline. ANNDDD, you get to view the double secret top secret stuff from the website.
It has nothing to do about money… In fact, it costs alot more to buy it at the store. Driving there, fighting traffic, blah blah… But that’s the point. I like going to my local hobby shop.
Thursday night, its open late, and I try to get over there about 2-3 times a month. Cheaper and safer than going to the bar. There is a usual group of us, so its become kinda of a boys night out. Well, after 4 years of looking forward to getting my new mags, I kinda got used to it.
It was fine until Trains.com did their format change. I dont like it, as I am one of a few guys I know who enjoy doing what I do.
It has nothing to do about money… In fact, it costs alot more to buy it at the store. Driving there, fighting traffic, blah blah… But that’s the point. I like going to my local hobby shop.
I’m only teasing. But, get a subsription and go to the hobby shop anyway.
You know - I’m in a similar situation. I am a subscriber, and I still can’t access Trains News Wire. I don’t seem to be automatically recognized, and I can’t find a dialogue box to enter my subscription number.
Do you guys know of a back-door way to “join”?
Warren
Hi Warren,
e-mail our Customer Sales & Service department at customerservice[at]kalmbach.com and they’ll fix you up. Or you can call the 800 number listed in the front of the magazine on Monday morning (sorry no weekend hours).
Bergie
Bergie:
OK -will do, thanks!
Warren
Bergie thanks for posting the picture!!!
stay safe
Joe
With the “build up” in this forum thread, I was expecting “SOME PHOTOS!!!”…
I’m disappointed. Just one small photo, in low resolution. I click on it and get a larger rendition, but it is only in a fair-to-middlin’ resolution.
Then there is the text accompanying the photo:
Quote:
Union Pacific Saturday gathered
their “magnificent six” Heritage SD70Ace
locomotives at their Salt Lake City intermodal
center for a family portrait. Though all six
engines have been public since last summer,
Saturday’s even was the first time UP gathered
the whole fleet in one place. Trains magazine
was on-site at sunrise; below is the views we
captured.
End Quote.
Personally, considering the respected source, I am appalled at the poor grammar and spelling in this copy.
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The engines are “SD70ACe” not “SD70Ace”. The spelling in the text implies that the model is an “ace”, (as a word). The “ACe” is an acronym where the “AC” stands for Alternating Current. I do not presently know what the “e” stands for, but it is a significant part of the acronym, not a silent ‘e’ on the end of the word ‘ace’. Misspelling the nomenclature can confuse and misinform the “railroad-naive” reader. A magazine that is “for and about railroads” must never make such misleading mistakes.
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I assume the word intended was “event” (not “even”), in the second-to-last sentence. A simple “typo”, but again, from a “professional” journal, I expect better.
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In the last sentence, the verb and number in the subject do not agree. It should be either “are the views” or “is the view”. Given that there is only one photo in this instance, the latter is the correct form.
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The photo the
Denied…guess I gotta pony up more money or wait for the pics.
It is one pic and not that exciting since the angle of the shot makes the last 3 units barely recognizable. Hopefully more pictures will be forth coming. Perhaps in the next issue?
Ah, must be a “Teaser”?
It certainly says a lot about Union Pacific that they would do such a thing with the fallen flags. Nice picture. Now if only CP would do an SD70ACE in Milwuakee Road colors…
It stands for enhanced, as in SD70, Alternating Current, enhanced. Enhanced as in new hood and cab (ala SD80/90), and Tier II compliance.
So let me get this straight. Having a mail subscription would somehow prevent you from visiting to your local hobby shop? Because that’s basically what you’re saying here.
If you go 2-3 times a month, that means there are 1-2 visits a month you go there anyway, without buying your copy of Trains. Sorry, I just don’t understand your thinking, man.
The only problem I have with what UP did is they put a standard yellow SD70ACe in front of the heritage engines! They should’ve put it behind all of the heritage engines, not in front of them. Was it taken off for the actual photo shoot? I also think they should be put side by side (if that is not what they did, I haven’t seen many photos of the event)