It is well after midnight as UP 8444 rests quietly in Las Vegas. The crewman on duty to monitor the locomotive through the night let me sit in the cab with him until 3 am, telling me how all the ... (more)
A lame 8444 sits in Cheyenne after having failed on an excursion at Lynch, WY prior to a photo run. The right cylinder valve cage was damaged but the Northern managed to limp back to Cheyenne.