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Published: 2015-06-08 03:35:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 1133; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Description During a railroad display (a precursor to the modern day railfairs and railroad days), UP decided to show off one of their new EMD F3 sets. This is sorta an emergency slide that I found with the box of Rio Grande slides. 
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darthmaul90 [2016-04-20 21:36:07 +0000 UTC]

Great picture.  Love the angle and the and the style is always a classic.  One thing though, and please forgive me for being nit-picky... Union Pacific #1449 was an F3, not an E8 or E9.

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UPSteam In reply to darthmaul90 [2016-04-21 02:23:47 +0000 UTC]

Whoops. 

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darthmaul90 In reply to UPSteam [2016-04-21 13:42:51 +0000 UTC]

I sincerely apologize if I offended you but I just couldn't stay silent on that little point.

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UPSteam In reply to darthmaul90 [2016-04-22 00:04:32 +0000 UTC]

No offense taken. I made a mistake and I'm glad someone called me out on it. 

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darthmaul90 In reply to UPSteam [2016-04-22 13:21:31 +0000 UTC]

In that case, my pleasure to be of assistance.

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UPSteam In reply to UPSteam [2016-04-21 02:27:13 +0000 UTC]

Though now that I looked at the slide more carefully, the trucks do look like an F-unit 'B-B' rather than the E9 'C-C'. The guy I got the slide from said that they were E9's. 

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darthmaul90 In reply to UPSteam [2016-04-21 13:50:26 +0000 UTC]

I looked up an old UP roster to confirm it because I didn't want to say anything without being certain.  Like you said, the trucks were what first clued me in, but then I also noticed the dynamic brake grilles along the top edge.  E8s and E9s had those silver Farr type grilles so that's how I knew this couldn't be an either of those.  Given the grilles it does have, I figured it had to be either an E7 or an F3.  Union Pacific had only four E7 A units numbered 959A, 960A, 930A and 931A.  That left the F3 as the only other possibility and I did confirm it.

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