Nostalgia & History > 6 Photos of the E-Units on the Director's Special, March 1980

These are Roger Puta's photos.

Enjoy,
Mae]rty Bernard

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That's on the WP with the Pearlman green buildings and signals

That train was the ultimate class act.

The UP Directors were inspecting the WP before they bought it.  I hope you don't mind looking at a ABBA E-unit set because I have a few more of Roger's.

Marty
 



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I think 3, 4, and 5 are at Fremont, CA.  Gerry

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> I think 3, 4, and 5 are at Fremont, CA.  Gerry

They are
 

What ever happened to these units? It seems like the UP had a LOT of E-units up into the 80s, and now just a few.

I'd say 1 & 2 are in near vicinity to Pulga, and 6 is at Blairsden.  I want to say 3, 4, and 5 are at Niles.

Great photos.  UP always had a class looking passenger train--Roger caught them in wonderful settings.
Brian Stevens

UP retired 7 of the 8 units later in 1980.  A different management later reacquired the 949 and 963B from outside sources and along with 951 were 
heavily rebuilt and enjoyed another run as leaders for business trains.  Now, the three seldom see use.

Actually, all 8 were retired, but #951 was retained and then reactivated in 1984. 6 of the other 7 that were retired were scrapped. #928 was "preserved" at the Western Heritage Museum in Omaha where it was heavily vandalized. The shell now sits on the ground at the steam shop in Cheyenne in very poor condition. Still grieves me that so many intact E-units from their original owner were scrapped rather than sent to museums, but in 1980, E8/9s were still relatively plentiful.



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The 3 existing E-units are listed near the top of this roster: http://www.thedieselshop.us/UP.HTML

Marty

949 and 963B were not part of the original 8 that were retained by UP until 1980. They had been sold off previously.