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Date: 07/04/22 07:53
Facing one of UP's big turbines
Author: valmont

Got this brute @ Cheyenne on 7/5/69 ...

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Date: 07/04/22 10:01
Re: Facing one of UP's big turbines
Author: texchief1

Nice shot!

RC Lundgren
Elgin, TX

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Date: 07/04/22 10:58
Re: Facing one of UP's big turbines
Author: MojaveBill

Anyone know what it was like to run those outfits? Good, bad, indifferent?

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

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Date: 07/04/22 19:58
Re: Facing one of UP's big turbines
Author: MP4093

What a brute.

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Date: 07/05/22 05:02
Re: Facing one of UP's big turbines
Author: Conductor_Pappy

I hired out on the Union Pacific in May 1968. I never roaded in the cab of one of these big blows. But I piolted several from the round house to the west end of the yard here in Cheyenne. I remember them being very difficult to start. And VERY noisy.  They were out of service by 1970 if I remember correctly. They burned bunker C which was very cheap back in the sixties. They make plastic and asphalt out of Bunker C now. There were pools of this bunker C all over the west end of the yard from leaking fuel tenders they had.
 I have found memories of these powerful brutes. Along with with SW1500, and SD40's. They were the power of my youth. When I first worked for the UP.

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