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Interesting train! Any idea where it is? TIA for any help…

1. UP 299 + three car passenger train at Gering, NE* on September 28, 1955.
Copy slide by Jack Pfeifer, from the late James W. Watson collection.

Thanks for the help!
Lance Garrels
santafe199

*Location provided by Don Strack. Thank you, sir! :^)



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/04/25 06:17 by santafe199.

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Why the extended exhaust stack for the S/G?

Thought it might be train 34 at Pocatello or somewhere up there,
but 34 probably had sleepers and food as long as it had that number.

ctillnc Wrote:
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> Why the extended exhaust stack for the S/G?


I believe the passenger units had that over the boiler for steam heating of the passenger cars.

Tom Loftus
Omaha, NE

ctillnc Wrote:
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> Why the extended exhaust stack for the S/G?

To keep the steam generator exhaust out of the cab.

It is unfortunate the train number is not visible in the indicator board.

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/03/25 21:10 by agentatascadero.

I make out a '4' with a leading digit, so maybe it is train 34. West Yellowstone service was for just the summer season, so perhaps it is between Ashton and Idaho Falls with only a coach for passengers. UP service in that area is confusing for me.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/03/25 21:12 by ts1457.

Cool looking train for sure, especially with that massive pilot.  As for location, the spruce trees at right
suggest a good source of ground water.  The gigantic high-tension tower at far left suggests proximity
to an electric power plant.  I resided in Eastern Idaho 45 years ago but can't recall anything familiar
in that excellent photo.

Very cool!  UP No. 94 was listed as a mixed train in the 1954 timetable I have, so presumably no freight traffic to handle this day?  There was also a shot of No. 94 at Gering in this thread:
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,5536123

mike woodruff
north platte ne

Other roads had the exhuast stack over the steam generator on the geeps, but I don't recall seeing any that tall.

Victor Baird

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Other roads had the exhuast stack over the steam
> generator on the geeps, but I don't recall seeing
> any that tall.
>
> Victor Baird

Probably depended on whether the railroad had the long hood as front or the short hood was front. With the short hood as front, like that UP passenger GP, they must have felt that tall stack extension was necessary.

Mystery solved, thanks to Mr Strack.  Bonus points for that great photo essay.

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Wabash used the short hood as front and their stacks weren't that tall either. Perhaps had to do with the make of steam generator and railroad preference.
Victor Baird

HotWater Wrote:
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> wabash2800 Wrote:
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> > Other roads had the exhuast stack over the
> steam
> > generator on the geeps, but I don't recall
> seeing
> > any that tall.
> >
> > Victor Baird
>
> Probably depended on whether the railroad had the
> long hood as front or the short hood was front.
> With the short hood as front, like that UP
> passenger GP, they must have felt that tall stack
> extension was necessary.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/04/25 20:29 by wabash2800.

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