Nostalgia & History > the last e unit ever made by Bill Marvel on the perch

 914  a 2.5 year old e9  at this point...Don Strack wrote;  UP 914 was sold to Amtrak 419 in May 1971; retired by Amtrak by 1980; sold to Precision National Corp., Mount Vernon, Illinois, in June 1981; scrapped.  also equipped with ATS  for Cajon pass.  I wish it would have survived longer it was among the last E units on the SFZ active.  Long and heavy,  for those 2 UPe's and  1 Milw ,   even a 1963 budd rpo  is    looks like he is lining up for a trip thru Harriman on track 3 perhaps? 

  lifted from railpics  Bill wrote 

"Peak summer travel season has begun, and Union Pacific’s combined City of Los Angeles-San Francisco is running in two sections, one to accommodate first-class travelers and a second for the coach trade. At 10:50 am on June 22, 1965, E9A 914 leads all-sleepers 1-103 past Tower A for the climb over Sherman Hill. First call for lunch will be issued shortly, and passengers will begin to move toward the dome diner, seen mid-train. In the evening, the train will perform an amoeba-like division in Ogden, Utah, one section proceeding via SP’s Overland Route as the City of San Francisco, the other continuing on UP rails to Los Angeles. A landmark for years at the west end of Cheyenne yards, Tower A will someday be immortalized in an unpainted Overland Models brass kit, still widely sought by collectors. Note also another luxury mode of travel just past the tower: the classic Airstream trailer parked by the side of the highway."

pic 2 by steve patterson   Barely three months old, U.P. E9A 914 (THE LAST E UNIT BUILT -- Jan. 1964) stands ready with three mates at Ogden, Utah station to take U.P.'s nameless Train No. 5 to Los Angeles on April 20, 1964. Note old original winged herald with all three words -- Union Pacific Railroad. (Agfachrome film)

pic 3 also by Steve may 71 chian



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/25 01:33 by dan.

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Jim Hinkhouse got it in greeley working for amtrak s/b SFZ  june 72

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First-class photos - Image one is a great historic view.
Bob

Interesting to note that in pic 2, the last E unit built had an enclosed front coupler.  Didn't know they were still available this late. 

Great thread.  BSB 

Great shots of the last E unit built.
I saw it quite a few times with Amtrak.
Gary

Nice stuff!  Steve is a great photographer.

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