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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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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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