Steam & Excursion > Greyhounds at Cheyenne 1949 - Ralph Hallock

Sometime during the winter months, Ralph Hallock visited Cheyenne and caught this view at the depot.  On the left is 4-8-4 809 leading #1 The Los Angeles Limited while on the next track over is 4-8-4 839 and another unidentified 800 on the head end of #27, The San Francisco Overland. Not the sharpest view ever but there's no going back for a redo.

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Terrific image of UP 800's in their glory days-!  Thanks for sharing this amazing image with their passenger train names.

WOW !,,

The classic photo is perfect for the mood and anticipation that it captures..

What a perfect, all around, photograph.

it's ageless in its appeal.
Thanks. SO MUCH!

Wes 

Wonderful image! Color images of the 800s in grey are not particularly plentiful. But I don't think I've ever seen an image like this one, with three of them in regular service, together side-by-side, and on scheduled, named passenger trains. Much less spotted at the depot in Cheyenne, straining at their leashes and ready to attack Sherman Hill. Greyhounds indeed! (And they sure ain't buses!) Remarkable...and probably quite rare.

Thanks much for posting a memorable image for us to enjoy.

MC

Wonderful photo.  Sharpened up a little on computer.  Hope you don't mind.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/25/20 15:41 by birdman.

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This photo includes the Cheyenne Freight House and the old Riner Viaduct besides the depot.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Did the 800s not receive the wind wings all at the same time or were they remover for some reason? I see the later series has them but the older ones don't.

Posted from Android

All of the Alco Northerns came without the wings. They are a UP shop mod Added.

Nice image.

Martin

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Great photo!

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With the dwell time in the station, freights used other tracks back then in Chian more i imagine.  never saw a pic of so many greyhounds at once, Someday be nice to get the 4 UP northerns together for something like this.

Sure appreciate the posting.

This is the way I want to  remember them.

Ed

My high school team mascot was the "Greyhounds". I had always associated the name with that bus company, and that did not make this SP brat happy at all.  To think of those FEFs as "my" Greyhounds could work for me, even if they are UP machines.

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

> With the dwell time in the station, freights used other tracks back then in Chian more i imagine. 

Hello,

In those days, the "passenger mains" (later known as "the P mains) were the tracks that ran via the depot.  At Tower A (west end of Cheyenne, near the C&S overpass) the two "Freight Mains" diverted to the south into the yard.  The Freight Mains  rejoined the passenger tracks at Cheyenne's "East End", about a mile east of the depot.  All freight trains operated via the Freight Mains & the freight yard at the time of the photo.  

Take care,

Mark

Awesome pic!

The poster found what is no doubt the correct date --
13 April 1947, when 1 and 27 would be side by side.

UP-ETT-1947_WYOMING-DIV_158_Don-Strack.pdf (utahrails.net)