| By: | Philip M. Goldstein |
| Dates: | 11/9/2019 - 11/9/2019 |
| Album Info: | Tagging along for dynamic brakes and as a protect locomotive; the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidential Library 41 - UP4141 locomotive was in the Big Boy consist today.
It was removed from storage on the q-t; and moved to Houston. Naturally, railfans found about it, and it was postulated it would join 4014 for the trip to the area.
Finally, UP announced it and it was tracked as well. It was added at Houston, and brought to College Station - where it was presented to Texas A&M University - George & Barbara Bush Library.
It is going to accompany the UP4014 Big Boy excursion to North Little Rock, AR, where it will be put back into storage and engine removed. The Bush Library is currently raising funds to build a shelter for it. When it is completed it will be brought back for permanent display.
Union Pacific
South Texas Service Unit
Giddings Subdivision
MP 001.22 - SH6 / US190 og
Hearne, Texas, USA
09 November 2019 - 09:32 CDT
UP P-HOBR 2-08
(nb passenger, Houston, Texas to Bryan, Texas)
UP 4014 "Big Boy" [American Locomotive 4-8-8-4 - November 1941]
UPP 814 "Joe Jordan" (auxiliary water tender)
UPP 809 "Jim Adams" (auxiliary water tender)
UP 4141 "George H. W. Bush" [EMD
SD70ACe]
UPP 6334 "Art Lockman" (maintenance tool car) [St. Louis Car Co, 1962]
Built as baggage car 6334.
UPP 209 "Howard Fogg" (boiler/baggage/dorm) [American Car & Foundry, 1949]
Built as boiler/baggage /dorm car) converted to boiler-dorm-HEP (Head End Power) in 2000.
UPP 5714 "Lynn Nystrom" (baggage car)
[American Car & Foundry, 1957]
Built as postal storage car 5714.
UPP 7015 "Challenger" (dome coach)
[Pullman Standard, 1958]
Built as UP 7015.
UPP 5752 "Promontory" (display car)
[St. Louis Car, 1962 Lightweight]
Built as postal storage 5752.
UPP 1602 "Green River" (deluxe sleeper)
[American Car & Foundry, 1949]
Built as 12-roomette, 4 BR, the no. 1602 "Western Hills" Rebuilt 1965 to an 11-BR sleeper, "Sun Isle" Rebuilt 1991, to 8BR d |
