#844 makes its way east towards Jefferson City with UP Train PKCJC2 17 at Levasy and a backdrop of grain elevators on the UP River Sub.

Locomotive: UP 844

10-17-16
Levasy, MO

Less than an hour out of Kansas City Union Station, UP Train PKCJC2 17 slams past Eton at 51 MPH on the UP River Sub. with the "Trek to Tennessee", bound for Jefferson City today, and Me... (more)

The lighted drumhead on the rear car of what came in as UP Train PFBKC2 15 sits in Union Station with the motive power visible in the distance. This is one of the more tasteful drumheads I've see... (more)

No Mars Light here! #844 brought UP Train PFBKC2 15 a few hours ago and slumbers the night away at KC Union Station.

Locomotives: UP 844

10-16-16
Kansas City, MO

In the home stretch for today's leg of the trip, UP Train PFBKC2 15 comes off High Line Track 75 at Penn Avenue Interlocking on the KCT East-West Corridor as it prepares to enter Kansas City Union... (more)

With a brief whistle stop in Lawrence complete, #844 has its short consist well in hand hammering out of town with UP Train PFBKC2 15 at Turkey Creek on the UP Kansas Sub. towards KC.

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After a brief service stop at the Union Pacific Great Overland Station, UP Train PFBKC2 15 departs for Lawrence and KC on the UP Kansas Sub. behind the Living Legend, #844.

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Union Pacific Railroad's venerable 1944 ALCO FEF-3 4-8-4 rounds the curve at Menoken Jct. with UP Train PFBKC2 15 from Fairbury, NE bound for Kansas City Union Station this afternoon, and ultimate... (more)

Shortly after leaving the service stop at Greeley, UP Train PDVCB3 24 is balling the jack on a northbound run ahead of a strengthening thunderstorm. This is an equipment deadhead move from the Ch... (more)

844 and 1989 head past an old wooden UP boxcar in the edge of a wheat field with UP Train PDVCB3 24, northbound on the UP Greeley Sub. This is an equipment deadhead move from the Cheyenne Frontie... (more)

Making a grand entrance and dodging raindrops back into the Denver area is UP Train PDVDV1 23, the Frontier Days Special behind 844, passing BNSF Train R PWR4503 23I, a roadswitcher at Sand Creek.... (more)

Dodging raindrops along the UP Greeley Sub., 844 has the Frontier Day Special, UP Train PDVDV1 23 rolling south for Denver past a field being mowed by a skid steer.

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After experiencing an undesired emergency stop just north of town, UP Train PDVDV1 23 with 844 up front and doing all the work pounds through the small town of Eaton on the UP Greeley Sub., the en... (more)

Now back in Colorado and making track speed just north of Nunn, UP Train PDVDV1 23 clicks off the miles towards Denver with the return trip of the Frontier Days Special.

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UP 844 is dropping down the hill out of Speer on the UP Greeley Sub. headed back to Denver with UP Train PDVDV1 23, the Frontier Days Special. The steam era water tank that once topped off the FE... (more)