844 Returns home in style

car57 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2018 10:28 pm

Lovely return trip for 844 with 20 tank cars this evening, humbling, emotional and good to have the crew back.
Seen here crossing the old 1869 Denver Pacific grade on Terry Ranch abandoned in 1908.
https://youtu.be/QSUpG1xZgM8

BigBoy 4023 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:40 am **Posts:** 489

Somber occasion. I wish the UP steam crew all the best in these tough times.

Robert

Lincoln Penn · **Joined:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:40 pm **Posts:** 840

BigBoy 4023 wrote:

Somber occasion. I wish the UP steam crew all the best in these tough times.

Hopefully the repairs to the wheels and brake shoes of engine and tender go smoothly. This is the second time 844's poor drivers have been tortured.

Robert

What "repairs to the wheels and brake shoes of the engine and tender" are you speaking of? If those items needed "repairs" after the incident, then why and how did the 844 and it's train of empty tank cars make it all the way back to Cheyenne?

BigBoy 4023 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:40 am **Posts:** 489

Info regarding heavy braking was rumored to have caused flat spotting of the wheels of 844 and tender. Obviously the rumors are unfounded and 844 had a leisurely trip home.

Robert

CREEPING DEATH · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:22 pm **Posts:** 275

As I recall, the previous flat-spotting incident here in Texas was due to a defective, unmanned EMD assist running full power shoving 844 and pulling the train despite the engineer dumping the air.

CD

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