Western Railroad Discussion > Wrecked UP 1983

Anyone know anything about the wreck involving UP1983 the WP hearstage unit?

Back on 4 August 2015 UP 1983, Western Pacific Heritage unit, led a grain train from Goshen Junction to Cheyenne Wells, CO, on UP's Limon Subdivision near Watkins, Colorado.

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Great photo, Zephyr!
TC

Oh no! Here it is leading an eastbound intermodal at Sherman, WY on a cold February 29, 2020 morning. === === = === JLH

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These are good photos but does anyone actually have information the OP asked for?


-Z

What he said!
George Andrassy 

It's in Nebraska.  Not wrecked.

z-trains Wrote:
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> These are good photos but does anyone actually
> have information the OP asked for?
>
The short answer is "It happened five years ago."

- Whew - Thanks for the correction/clarification. My heart was breaking... === === = === JLH

Amazing that this unit (& the other 5 Union Pacific Heritage SD70ACe units) are getting close to 15 years old!!!

~ Mr. MRL

The Olympic unit is still running around, the paint turning 20 soon.

Out 

callum_out Wrote:
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> The Olympic unit is still running around, the
> paint turning 20 soon.

I'm pretty sure the paint is much younger than that. The UP repainted them in-kind, which shocked the heck out of me when they did it.

I believe all of the six h-units also have been at least touched up. The Wikipedia article about them states, however, that UP1995 (C&NW heritage) has been out of service since summer with electrical issues, and the author indicated there is some doubt about its future.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/28/20 16:18 by toledopatch.

The SD70ACe’s were repainted.

Still non-isolated cabs and suck to run as the harmonics are aweful.

Before the repaints, the interior of the cabs were/are awful, rattle, and look like any other road unit, unfortunately.

callum_out Wrote:
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> The Olympic unit is still running around, the
> paint turning 20 soon.
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> Out 

You mean Olympic Units, UP has 2 SD60Ms painted in tha scheme which I saw one of them when I was in in Seattle back in 2014!

ProAmtrak Wrote:
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> callum_out Wrote:
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> > The Olympic unit is still running around, the
> > paint turning 20 soon.
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> You mean Olympic Units, UP has 2 SD60Ms painted in
> tha scheme which I saw one of them when I was in
> in Seattle back in 2014!

The Olympic Units are SD70M’s

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