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Nostalgia & History > Classy U50 shots?Date: 08/06/22 02:45 Classy U50 shots? Author: santafe199 Three BIG boats and a couple of garden-variety B-units! A consist that only Uncle Pete could scare up... And at Calhoun Bluffs we see a total club-foot clank of a consist: U50 ~ GP30... WOOF! So what if the weather is less than ideal, and code-comm lines dominate one of the images. Bill shot himself a couple of dandies. We’re talkin’ U50s here, from a looong time ago in a galaxy far, far away! At the very least, it was Dependable Transportation... ;^)
1. UP 50 is not embarrassed to lead 2 close siblings + a pair of also-rans near Uintah, UT on September 18, 1965. 2. UP 50 again, leading a GP30? What else can be said? Westbound at Calhoun Bluffs NE of Topeka, KS on September 25, 1965. Kodachrome slides by William A. Gibson Sr, now in the James T Wilson collection. Thanks for looking back! Lance Garrels (santafe199) Jim Wilson (jtwlunch) Remembering the late Bill Gibson, aka ‘WAG Sr’ Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/23 03:07 by santafe199. Date: 08/06/22 03:55 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: cozephyr Wow, what a U50 lashup-! 1. UP 50 is not embarrassed to lead 2 close siblings + a pair of also-rans near Uintah, UT, on September 18, 1965.
Glad you scanned those winners. Date: 08/06/22 06:46 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: jtwlunch Love the U50's running elephant style!
Date: 08/06/22 06:47 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: Bob3985 Interesting consists. And those B units behind the U50's in the first one as well.
Bob Krieger Cheyenne, WY Date: 08/06/22 07:53 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: FiveChime I was never able to see a UP U50 but it appears UP took the single note Leslie A-200 horns from older retired F units
and perhaps turbines and installed them on the big GEs. Or....did they come with these horns from GE? Great photos! Regards, Jim Evans Date: 08/06/22 08:17 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: ntharalson Without checking the utahrails site, wasn't #50 the class engine of the U50's. Good stuff, Lance,t hanks for posting.
Nick Tharalson, Marion, IA Date: 08/06/22 08:47 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: jgilmore Nice set, #2 is a Great Dane-Chihuahua consist...
JG Date: 08/06/22 09:03 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: santafe199 ntharalson Wrote: > ... wasn't #50 the class engine of the U50's ...
I believe eng #31 was the class unit. The 50 was toward the end, with 53 being the highest number I can find... Date: 08/06/22 09:57 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: Ritzville Very enjoyable series!
Larry Date: 08/06/22 10:06 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: UP3806 First U50 was numbered 31. Saw it on display at a Powerama exhibit in Chicago in 1963. Big Blow turbines were numbered 1-30 on UP.
Tom Date: 08/06/22 11:44 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: Evan_Werkema FiveChime Wrote:
> I was never able to see a UP U50 but it appears UP > took the single note Leslie A-200 horns from older > retired F units and perhaps turbines and installed them on the big > GEs. Or....did they come with these horns from GE? This photo of brand new U50 #37 appears to show the usual pair of A-200-156's hiding behind the roofwalk, so the Whirlybirds probably came from GE that way: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2299154 Units without the roofwalk over the forward radiators had the horns side-by-side; those with the roofwalk had them in tandem: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2245856 The horns are admittedly sometimes hard to see way up on top of these extremely tall units, but I don't recall ever seeing a photo of a Union Pacific 8-axle U50 wearing anything other than a pair of Leslie A-200-156's. The 6-axle U50C's mostly came with Leslie S-5T's, but 5010 and 5021 at least appear to have worn S-3L's: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5212357 http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5212359 A late photo of 5027 on page 53 of Union Pacific's Big GEs - U50 and U50C appears to show a Nathan P3 up on the radiator wings, see also: http://rr-fallenflags.org/up/up5027dsa.jpg Date: 08/06/22 12:07 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: texchief1 Great shots, Lance!
RC Lundgren Date: 08/06/22 18:37 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: ntharalson santafe199 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > ntharalson Wrote: > ... wasn't #50 the class > engine of the U50's ... > > I believe eng #31 was the class unit. The 50 was > toward the end, with 53 being the highest number I > can find... Thanks, Lance. Nick Tharalson, Marion, IA Date: 08/06/22 19:24 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: ironmtn Never got to see a U50, very much to my regret, since I have always found them to be extremely interesting. But these two images go a long, long way to easing that regret. Perhaps the two best U50 images I've ever seen -- outstanding.
Thanks, guys. And fine work with the scans, Lance. (P.S. Talk to PRose, Lance - he has a great U50 story to tell, which you may recall from a certain trip to Galesburg a few years back....) MC Date: 08/07/22 11:31 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: Evan_Werkema I never got to see the U50's either, but I do like the giant, brick-like appearance of the UP units. The radiators at opposite ends, the four Type-B's, and the strange but fascinating screened-in blower compartments at either end all helped.
I never could warm up to the 6-axle U50C's, though. With the radiator wings centered on the hood, the cab stuck up like an afterthought and the whole locomotive looked vaguely insect-like. Date: 08/07/22 15:21 Re: Classy U50 shots? Author: RailRat I never saw one, but I've had this one since about 1972?
Not sure, But I think The Hobby shops didn't have an N guage DDA40X at the time , which is the ones I DID see as a kid, so I talked Mom into buying this one as a consolation, it really pulled a lot of cars! Jim Baker Riverside, CA |