Nostalgia & History > OTD: UP E's & passenger trains @ Cheyenne ('69) +

Before Amtrak, this was what you'd see in Cheyenne ... could use some help w/what trains these were. 2 more to follwow & last pic just a reminder that the UP did run freight trains : >)

April 13, 1969

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#957 in yard and a couple SP&S box cars rolling by ... and UP passenger trains still ran across Nebraska.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/19 03:46 by valmont.

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Wonderful memories; E-units, passenger traffic, switch lamps, and you captured them all at Cheyenne, Wyoming.  Thanks for sharing your collection with us.

These slides are excellent !  Wish I 'd grown up in Cheyenne . Your first slide is terrific.  --Kelly

CoP had quit running via Denver -- it had become the Omaha-Green River local. Arrived Cheyenne half an hour before the CoLA-CoSF, with just a dome coach it seems.

Old UP RR Cheyenne, WY  based passenger train crews worked east to North Platte, NE and west to Green River, WY. Cheyenne engine crews worked to and from, correction,  Sidney, NE and west to and from Rawlins, WY. Denver T&E crews worked to and from Cheyenne.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/19 05:09 by RodneyZona.

Note the lead unit in the first photo is E9 number 900. One of only a few E9's that were built with signal lights. 

The UP sure was a classy operation then. I can’t believe the last one of the SP&S boxcar. I believe it’s a WW1 USRA type.I have never seen one in revenue service at such a late date!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/19 14:45 by GN599.

These trains look like the westbound City of Los Angles / City of San Francisco and the City of Portland.  These two trains were combined into the train known by fans as the City of everywhere on September 7, 1969.  From that time on, they ran as a single train over the UP mainline across Nebraska.  The City of Denver ran as a stub train between Denver and North Platte during this time period. The City of Portland quit running into Denver effective with the fall timetable that in 1967.   

RodneyZona Wrote:
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> Cheyenne engine crews worked to
> and from Kimball, NE

Umm, maybe you meant to say Sydney, NE?

Rob L.

Sidney

I will have to look up when the interdivisional agreements were signed but the Cheyenne east 4th district crews ran to Sidney (not Sydney) Nebraska and the west crews ran to Laramie. After the agreements were signed was when the run through pools were created and assigned based on  miles run. For example on my district the 3rd District crews out of North Platte originally ran 120 miles to Sidney and the 4th District out of Cheyenne ran 100. So in the interdivisional agreement every 10th turn in the pool was a double North Platte crew meaning that there were two North Platte turns called in succession. then it went back to the 1 for 1.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

GN599 Wrote:
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> The UP sure was a classy operation then. I can’t
> believe the last one of the SP&S boxcar. I believe
> it’s a WW1 USRA type.I have never seen one in
> revenue service at such a late date!

I agree, I certainly don't recall seeing one that old in a main line freight anywhere by the late 1960s.  Seeing that car in a UP main line freight through Cheyenne at the late date would have been about like seeing a Model T driving down nearby Insterstate 80.

Anybody know when the UP switched from posting passenger train numbers in the number boards and instead simply repeated the locomotive number in the number boards?

Conventional wisdom: 1965 for UP, 1967 for SP.