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Union Pacific 844

Index Union Pacific 844

Union Pacific 844 is a 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company in December 1944 for the Union Pacific Railroad. [1]

58 relations: Abilene, Kansas, American Locomotive Company, Amtrak, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Burlington Northern Railroad, California State Railroad Museum, Cannibalization (parts), Challenger (train), Cheyenne Frontier Days, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, Closing credits, Coal, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Denver, Diesel–electric transmission, Dwight D. Eisenhower, EMD GP30, EMD SD70 series, EMD SDP40F, Everett, Washington, Excursion train, Expo '74, Extreme Trains, Fuel oil, Kansas City Union Station, LNER Class A4, LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower, Los Angeles Limited, Mars Light, Milliken, Colorado, Nevada, Nevada State Railroad Museum, New Orleans, Norfolk Southern Railway, North America, Ogden, Utah, Overland Limited (UP train), Pat Metheny Group, PBS, Railroad classes, Sacramento, California, San Francisco Zephyr, Shining Time Station, Southern Pacific 4449, Spokane, Washington, Steam locomotive, Tacoma, Washington, The Denver Post, Union Pacific 4014, ..., Union Pacific Big Boy, Union Pacific FEF Series, Union Pacific Railroad, Union Station (Los Angeles), Union Station (Ogden, Utah), Wyoming, 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, 4-8-4. Expand index (8 more) »

Abilene, Kansas

Abilene (pronounced) is a city in and the county seat of Dickinson County, Kansas, United States.

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American Locomotive Company

The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco, designed, built and sold steam locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives, diesel engines and generators, specialized forgings, high quality steel, armed tanks and automobiles and produced nuclear energy.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States.

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Burlington Northern Railroad

The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads.

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California State Railroad Museum

The California State Railroad Museum is a museum in the state park system of California, USA, interpreting the role of the "iron horse" in connecting California to the rest of the nation.

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Cannibalization (parts)

Cannibalization of machine parts, in maintenance of mechanical or electronic systems with interchangeable parts, refers to the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device, rather than from inventory, usually when resources become limited.

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Challenger (train)

The Challengers were named passenger trains on the Union Pacific Railroad and the Chicago and North Western Railway (which was replaced in 1955 by the Milwaukee Road).

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Cheyenne Frontier Days

Cheyenne Frontier Days™ is an outdoor rodeo and western celebration in the United States, held annually since 1897 in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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Cheyenne, Wyoming

Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County.

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Chicago and North Western Transportation Company

The Chicago and North Western Transportation Company was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States.

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Closing credits

Closing credits or end credits are a list of the cast and crew of a particular motion picture, television program, or video game.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Council Bluffs, Iowa

Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States.

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Diesel–electric transmission

A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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EMD GP30

The EMD GP30 is a four-axle B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois between July 1961 and November 1963.

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EMD SD70 series

The EMD SD70 is a series of diesel-electric locomotives produced by Electro-Motive Diesel in response to the GE Dash 9-44CW.

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EMD SDP40F

The EMD SDP40F was a six-axle C-C diesel–electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) from 1973–1974.

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Everett, Washington

Everett is the county seat of and the largest city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

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Excursion train

An excursion train is a chartered train run for a special event or purpose.

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Expo '74

Expo '74 was the first environmentally themed world's fair.

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Extreme Trains

Extreme Trains is a television program on The History Channel that describes the daily operations of the railroads in the United States of America, from coal trains to passenger trains and famous routes.

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Fuel oil

Fuel oil (also known as heavy oil, marine fuel or furnace oil) is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue.

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Kansas City Union Station

Kansas City Union Station (station code: KCY) is a union station opened in 1914, serving Kansas City, Missouri, and the surrounding metropolitan area.

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LNER Class A4

The Class A4 is a class of streamlined 4-6-2 steam locomotive designed by Nigel Gresley for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1935.

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LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower

60008 Dwight D Eisenhower is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive named after the United States General of the Army.

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Los Angeles Limited

The Los Angeles Limited was a named passenger train in the United States.

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Mars Light

Mars Lights are signal-safety lights used in the United States and built by Mars Signal Light Company for railroad locomotives and firefighting apparatus.

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Milliken, Colorado

The Town of Milliken is a Statutory Town in Weld County, Colorado, United States.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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Nevada State Railroad Museum

The Nevada State Railroad Museum, located in Carson City, Nevada, preserves the railroad heritage of Nevada, including locomotives and cars of the famous Virginia and Truckee Railroad.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a city and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City.

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Overland Limited (UP train)

The Overland Limited (also known at various times as the Overland Flyer, San Francisco Overland Limited, San Francisco Overland and often simply as the Overland) was an American named passenger train which for much of its history was jointly operated by three railroads on the Overland Route between San Francisco and Chicago.

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Pat Metheny Group

The Pat Metheny Group is an American jazz fusion group founded in 1977 in Missouri.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Railroad classes

In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, II, or III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board.

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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San Francisco Zephyr

The San Francisco Zephyr was the name adopted in June 1972 for the Amtrak passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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Shining Time Station

Shining Time Station is an American children's television series jointly created by British television producer Britt Allcroft and Rick Siggelkow.

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Southern Pacific 4449

Southern Pacific 4449 is the only surviving example of Southern Pacific Railroad's (SP) (today Union Pacific) GS-4 class of steam locomotives.

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Spokane, Washington

Spokane is a city in the state of Washington in the northwestern United States.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.

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The Denver Post

The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and website that has been published in the Denver, Colorado area since 1892.

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Union Pacific 4014

Union Pacific 4014, or UP 4014, is a Big Boy-type (four-cylinder articulated 4-8-8-4) steam locomotive owned by Union Pacific Railroad.

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Union Pacific Big Boy

The American Locomotive Company 4000-class 4-8-8-4 locomotive, popularly named Big Boy, is an articulated, coal or oil-fired, steam locomotive manufactured between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad until 1959.

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Union Pacific FEF Series

The FEF was a series of three steam locomotive types owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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Union Station (Los Angeles)

Los Angeles Union Station (LAUS) is the main railway station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest railroad passenger terminal in the Western United States.

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Union Station (Ogden, Utah)

Union Station, also known as Ogden Union Station, is a train station in Ogden, Utah, at the west end of Historic 25th Street, just south of the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.

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1984 Louisiana World Exposition

The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition was a World's Fair held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.

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4-8-4

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and four trailing wheels on two axles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_844

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