Talk:Union Pacific heritage fleet

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Union Pacific 1982 was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 3 March 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Union Pacific heritage fleet. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Union Pacific 1983 was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 3 March 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Union Pacific heritage fleet. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Union Pacific 1988 was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 3 March 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Union Pacific heritage fleet. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Union Pacific 1989 was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 3 March 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Union Pacific heritage fleet. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Union Pacific 1995 was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 3 March 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Union Pacific heritage fleet. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Union Pacific 1996 was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 3 March 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Union Pacific heritage fleet. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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I think we need to change this page. According to Union Pacific, the UP Heritage Fleet includes not only the six heritage units, but all commemorative locomotives, the historic E9s, the DDA40X and the steam locomotives. In addition, passenger cars are also considered part of the heritage fleet. So my best idea is to rewrite this whole article with information of all heritage fleet equipment. Please see this page for more details about what is included in the UP Heritage Fleet.

Optionally, we could also keep the content of this page under the name of Union Pacific Heritage Units, so that the entire fleet could fit on this page, and the current content of this page remain unchanged on this page. If you have any more ideas, please list them below, because I won't make any changes until there are enough opinions to look up to.

Just a heads up, I already prepared the new page on my sandbox, so when the decision is finally made, the changes will be made quickly.

Davidng913 (talk) 14:23, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Great idea. I think we should add all of the other UP heritage to this page; put another way, I don't think the locomotives should have their own page separate from the rest. PRRfan (talk) 18:46, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect. Allow me to finish adding citations and then I will move my content.Davidng913 (talk) 12:35, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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An editor deleted this unreferenced text from the Union Pacific page. I'm moving it here in case someone wants to look up references and add it:

A number of locomotives are kept in storage for possible restoration. Rio Grande (DRGW) F9B 5763 is part of the Trio (A-B-B) of F9s that served on the Rio Grande in various Passenger Duty services (From the Denver Ski Train to the Zephyr Trains) until their retirement in 1996. Sister Units 5771 (F9A) and 5762 (F9B) were donated to the Colorado Railroad Museum. Chicago and North Western F7 No. 401, used for Chicago and North Western business trains, was also retained by UP.

UP 838, a twin to 844, is stored in the Cheyenne roundhouse as a parts source, though as most of its usable parts have already been applied to 844, it is more likely to see use as a source of pattern parts for reproduction replacements. Reputedly, 838's boiler is in better condition than that of 844, due to 838 having not been in steam since retirement, compared to 844's relatively heavy use since 1960.

Among the former tenants was Southern Pacific 1518 (the first production SD7 ex EMD demo 990), transferred to the Illinois Railway Museum after some time in storage in the UP shops.

PRRfan (talk) 13:26, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

CNW 401 has since left the roundhouse. It should be headed for Boone, Iowa. Davidng913 (talk) 18:41, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]