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The Union Pacific No. 844. It was the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific and is one of the last surviving and still operational original steam locomotives in the world. It doesn't run all that much, but I heard it was passing through so I went down to the station this morning to watch it leave at 8am.




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It was pretty impressive. It stands nearly twenty feet tall, and the engine and tender alone weigh nearly one million pounds. I can't even imagine how amazing it must have been in the '20's, '30's, '40's, and '50's to see them all lined up at the train station.

Very impressive piece of machinery.

That's pretty awesome Steve!

- Justin

very nice! so what was the 60' time?

i like the looks of the steam locomotives so many parts lol

That is sooooooo cool. Man that is crapload of Seafoam blowing out of that engine! When I worked at Flemington, there was a steam engine you could ride on and I think there still is one that also runs around New Hope. Do they give rides on this engine?

Steam locomotives are a badass piece of machinery.

new hope still has theirs, and it runs all summer.

Not sure about flemington/ringoes anymore

Strasburg railroad museum in PA still use one.

The engineer said it's not that much anymore due to the insurance company raising the cost, but he said it will run once this summer as a passenger train from Denver to Cheyenne and back. I'm really thinking about saving up for it. Here's a link;



http://cfdtrain.com/CFDTrain/Welcome.html

The 60' time was like two minutes lol It takes a while for them to get moving, but the engineer said she'll cruise at 75mph like a Rolls-Royce :)

haha i bet, those things are awesome. it's been a long time since i've been on a steam engine. they run forever though wish i saw one roll by around here:|

I love old locomotives like that! Cool pics too :nod:

The New Hope & Ivyland still runs regularly.

The Black River & Western in Flemington still does operate passenger excursions as well as frieght, but the steam engine # 60 has been taken apart to be rebuilt and they ran out of money.

what do they use to fire the boiler with nowadays?

way cool to see that in person

844 has always burned oil.

man that thing is great but the size of it geeezzz the wheels are almost 8 feet tall that a model of American engineering

BIG , HEAVY , LOUD and POWERFUL lol

so ****in sweet! i love it. i wonder if it will come down the shore? :)

top gear had an awesome episode with clarkson shoveling coal into the burner for the steam engine. twas hilarious.

Great pictures! That is one big locomotive

steve, where was this? i saw union but it looks like the 5/0 has an out of state plate?

Union Station in Kansas City :)

Crap, my guess was MH-47G lol But thats bad ass man! Nice pics. :)

wouldn't that be measured in "thrust"?

that looks like a lot of fun!

got bored and youtubed videos of it. I just wanted to hear the tone of the whistle actually .. lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiSj47ps3j8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OgSNQOTw2U

and this one gives the most shots of it ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju6rvbu7Cps