Nostalgia & History > Green signals and one long passenger train

Disclaimer: previously posted.

Because of the recent interest in the era of the UP "green signals", here is another example of those signals. If you look closely, the cantilever signal over the train is green as well as the signal bungalow in the foreground.

The train is Union Pacific's #104 during the last years of passenger service before Amtrak. The date is June 1969, the location is Dale Junction, Wyoming in the heart of Sherman Hill. It is June, and it is about to snow!

20 cars (at least) of domeliner goodness! Thanks for re-posting!

KC

And, 5 E units! Not lacking for power.

Really nice!!

I think it has 23 cars. 5 units because I think the UP ran over 79 mph because they had Automatic Cab Signals. Anyone know what the max speed was in WY and NE during the few years before AMTK?

Nice shot.

~Ryan

UP Train 104 would have been the eastbound City of Los Angeles. By the time of Super C's photo the City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, Challenger, City of Denver, and City of San Francisco were combined east of Utah. We railfans called the train the "City of Everywhere." And that's reason for the huge train in the photo.


Marty Bernard



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/02/14 18:33 by MartyBernard.

max timetable speed 90 but they went far faster whenever late, whatever those gears were good for heard many stories above 110



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/14 05:46 by dan.

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Wonder what Biz car that is...SHM

tp117 Wrote:
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> I think it has 23 cars. 5 units because I think
> the UP ran over 79 mph because they had Automatic
> Cab Signals. Anyone know what the max speed was in
> WY and NE during the few years before AMTK?

And the follow-on Amtrak San Francisco Zephyr ran scheduled 90 MPH as well--as it is either cab signals or the old ATSF ATS system that allow you to get over 79 MPH (now matter how good your track is). Legally, anyway...LOL!!! But they ran the century mark with regularity well into the AMTK SDP40F, then F40PH era, often with a UP E-Unit (later GP40X or "Fast Forty" SD40-2) on the point until it became the California Zephyr and rerouted over the Rio Grande after that RR discontinued the RGZ in 1983.