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Owner: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Model:Alco 4-8-4Built As:UP 844 (4-8-4)
Serial Number:72791Order No:S-1937
Frame Number:25X32 cylinders, 80" driversBuilt:12/1944
Notes:FEF-3 class, UP Steam Program.
Other locos with this serial:  UP 8444(4-8-4) UP 844(4-8-4)
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UP 4-8-4 8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1971  Upload Date: 9/18/2021 8:32:49 PM
Location:  Laramie, WY
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1971  Upload Date: 9/18/2021 8:33:56 PM
Location:  Laramie, WY
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  403   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1971  Upload Date: 9/18/2021 8:35:08 PM
Location:  Laramie, WY
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
The Final One
Title:  The Final One
Description:  The last of the City trains, with 8444 at the helm, draws a crowd at Cheyenne on May 1, 1971. Amtrak had just arrived and UP memorialized the occasion by having 8444 pull the last UP operated City train during part of its run.
Photo Date:  5/1/1971  Upload Date: 9/18/2021 8:36:17 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  471   Comments: 0
Wye not
Title:  Wye not
Description:  844(4) as she should look, live with a clean stack. With UP 904 and train in tow she tckes a leisurely cruise around the wye in Denver. She would later power a Dent Branch excursion.
Photo Date:  6/15/1971  Upload Date: 9/14/2010 11:04:23 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Karl Rethwisch
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1736   Comments: 2
UP 8444
Title:  UP 8444
Description:  Grease for UP 8444
Photo Date:  6/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/3/2004 11:33:09 PM
Location:  Laramie, WY
Author:  Bob Wilcox
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1886   Comments: 1
Portrait of a Lady
Title:  Portrait of a Lady
Description:  At rest after a long hard workout to Laramie.
Photo Date:  8/2/1973  Upload Date: 3/26/2004 2:51:25 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1507   Comments: 1
Drifting...
Title:  Drifting...
Description:  Working her way thru the switches from Denver Union Sta. to the U.P.R.R. service area.
Photo Date:  8/2/1973  Upload Date: 3/26/2004 2:52:39 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1457   Comments: 0
Ready to ROLL!
Title:  Ready to ROLL!
Description:  In the station @ Greeley, Colo. She soon took off; going 0-90 from a standing start.
Photo Date:  8/2/1973  Upload Date: 3/26/2004 2:53:45 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1580   Comments: 1
Crossing Over
Title:  Crossing Over
Description:  The end of a day-long excursion, Denver-to-Laramie gave some twilight photos.
Photo Date:  8/2/1973  Upload Date: 3/26/2004 2:54:56 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1127   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  inside the roundhouse
Photo Date:  9/30/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 9:04:49 PM
Location:  Green River, WY
Author:  Greg Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1368   Comments: 1
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  getting ready to depart on an eastward caboose hop
Photo Date:  9/30/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 9:06:54 PM
Location:  Green River, WY
Author:  Greg Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1370   Comments: 0
UP 8444 eastward on caboose hop
Title:  UP 8444 eastward on caboose hop
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 9:09:15 PM
Location:  Rock Springs, WY
Author:  Greg Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1859   Comments: 3
UP 8444 on caboose hop
Title:  UP 8444 on caboose hop
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 9:12:04 PM
Location:  Rock Springs, WY
Author:  Greg Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1397   Comments: 0
UP 8444
Title:  UP 8444
Description:  eastward caboose hop
Photo Date:  9/30/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 9:14:46 PM
Location:  Medicine Bow, WY
Author:  Greg Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1570   Comments: 3
UP 8444
Title:  UP 8444
Description:  eastward caboose hop on Sherman hill
Photo Date:  9/30/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 9:16:52 PM
Location:  Laramie, WY
Author:  Greg Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  1240   Comments: 0
UP 8444
Title:  UP 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 9:17:54 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  Greg Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  2394   Comments: 2
UP 8444
Title:  UP 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/1973  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 9:18:38 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  Greg Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  2294   Comments: 0
A Steamy Special
Title:  A Steamy Special
Description:  UP 8444 pulls an excursion in February of 1974. Location unknown
Photo Date:  2/1/1974  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 5:39:38 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
Off The Beaten Path
Title:  Off The Beaten Path
Description:  UP 8444, with a quintet of borrowed Amtrak cars, waits at some unknown location with an off-line excursion.
Photo Date:  2/1/1974  Upload Date: 11/13/2018 6:27:21 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  398   Comments: 1
UP 8444
Title:  UP 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1974  Upload Date: 11/6/2009 2:21:27 AM
Location:  Spokane, WA
Author:  S.L. Dixon
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  509   Comments: 0
UP 8444
Title:  UP 8444
Description:  UP 8444 camped out in Spokane Wa. for the Worlds Fair.
Photo Date:  6/1/1974  Upload Date: 11/6/2009 2:21:57 AM
Location:  Spokane, WA
Author:  S.L. Dixon
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  688   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  Beautiful shot of last Union Pacific 4-8-4 Northern type steam locomotive to be built by Alco-Schenectady in 12/24/1944. it is one of UP's oldest serving locomotives[3] and the only steam locomotive owned by a North American Class I railroad that has never been retired. Although no date, location or photographer was listed with the negatives that this was made from, it appears to be the Denver Union Station in the background. The number 8444 was used between 1962-89 due to new diesels taking its original 844 number. This very well may be the Chyenne Western Days special from Denver to Cheyenne.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:05:38 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  359   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  Here's another view of the blow by on UP 4-8-4 8444 while it is in the Denver Union Station yard.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:05:40 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  The "elephant ear" smoke deflectors give it a European look. Unknown date, location and photographer.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:05:42 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  183   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  Massive face with its diagonal number boards, red Mars light and center headlight. No date, location or photographer was given for the negatives.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:05:45 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  161   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  Loaded with fans, probably heading to the annual Cheyenne Western Days from Denver, UP 8444 has a head of steam up and ready to roll. No date, location or photographer was listed for the original negatives of this photo.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:05:47 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  296   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  Massive 80" drivers make for fast speeds on this UP 4-8-4 Northern type steam locomotive #8444 built by Alco-Schenectady in December of 1944. This was the last of the 4-8-4's to be built for UP.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:05:52 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  181   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  A proud engineer leans out the window of the UP 4-8-4 Northern loco. Does anyone know his name? No date, location or photographer was listed for the original negatives but it very well may be the annual Cheyenne Western Days fan trip sometime between 1962-89 while the loco wore the "8444" number.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:05:54 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  Filling the sky with massive clouds of black smoke during a run-by, UP 4-8-4 #8444 delights both young and old alike. No date, location or photographer was listed for the original negatives used to make this print.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:05:56 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  184   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  The late afternoon sun bathes the massive 4-8-4 Northern type steam locomotive in a golden glow. No date, location or photographer's name came with the original negative that was used to create this photo.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:06:00 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  Larger than life is this 4-8-4 Northern type steam locomotive labeled as the "Living Legend" in reference to it being the only steam locomotive owned by a North American Class I railroad that has never been retired. No date, locatlion opr photographer was listed for the original negatives that all of the photos in this album were made from.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:31:51 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444 & NW C30-7 #8071
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444 & NW C30-7 #8071
Description:  A very unlikely pair of locos are sitting together in an unidentified yard. Still have not figured out example where the fan trip that was photographed by an unknown photographer. Originally I thought these were of the annual Denver to Cheyenne Western Days trip, but not so sure.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:31:56 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  NW 8071(C30-7) UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  338   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 #8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 #8444
Description:  The massive tender for the UP 4-8-4 #8444 sits in the late afternoon sun in an unidentified yard, possibly Denver or Cheyenne. No date, location or photographer was listed for the original negatives that were used to produce the images in this album.
Photo Date:  7/30/1975  Upload Date: 10/28/2020 4:31:58 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
UP 8444
Title:  UP 8444
Description:  For a few short hours a dream came true. Union Pacific's 8444 and the American Freedom Train's 4449 thrilled thousands of people across Nebraska. 8444 fresh from the Omaha shops and the 4449 having been repaired, worked together as a special train from Omaha to Cheyenne, as photographed near Brady, Neb.
Photo Date:  10/12/1975  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 7:34:24 PM
Location:  Brady, NE
Author:  James W. Watson
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1715   Comments: 0
UP 8444
Title:  UP 8444
Description:  Union Pacific's 8444, with the American Flag flying, rests at North Platte, Neb. The 8444 had just doubleheaded with the American Freedom Trains 4449 from Omaha. After taking on fuel oil and water, the two 4-8-4's will leave North Platte at sunset to complete their journey to Cheyenne and the end of a once in a lifetime experience.
Photo Date:  10/12/1975  Upload Date: 8/10/2013 6:34:36 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  James W. Watson
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  677   Comments: 0
Special Doubleheader
Title:  Special Doubleheader
Description:  UP 8444 and SP 4449 heading west from Omaha bound for Salt Lake City. Taken by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  10/12/1975  Upload Date: 12/5/2022 8:23:43 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 8444
Description:  UP 8444 backs an excursion through the cut at Hermosa
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 5:44:59 PM
Location:  Hermosa, WY
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  411   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 5:46:32 PM
Location:  Hermosa, WY
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
Homeward Bound
Title:  Homeward Bound
Description:  UP 8444, just south of Cheyenne, rolls an excursion homeward.
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 5:51:00 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
Nearing The Bridge 2
Title:  Nearing The Bridge 2
Description:  Slightly before the previous shot, UP 8444 pulls an excursion towards Cheyenne at the Speer Road bridge
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 5:59:18 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  365   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 5:59:46 PM
Location:  Hermosa, WY
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 6:00:20 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
UP 4-8-4 8444
Title:  UP 4-8-4 8444
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 6:04:10 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
Settling The Cylinders
Title:  Settling The Cylinders
Description:  The cylinder cocks on UP 8444 are drawn open to let out the excess condensate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 6:04:47 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
Simmering
Title:  Simmering
Description:  UP 8444 simmers in the yards in Denver, waiting to head north to Cheyenne
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 6:05:17 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
Rolling Along
Title:  Rolling Along
Description:  UP 8444 speeds along an excursion near the Colorado/Wyoming border, headed for Cheyenne. Location unknown
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/26/2018 6:07:51 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  251   Comments: 0
Steam Action
Title:  Steam Action
Description:  UP 8444 passes the camera with an excursion as one of the photographer's sons looks on.
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 11/13/2018 6:23:54 PM
Location:  Harriman, WY
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  275   Comments: 1
1095-09 UP steamer 8444 in the roundhouse
Title:  1095-09 UP steamer 8444 in the roundhouse
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1977  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 1:08:03 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  653   Comments: 0
1096-14 After a long slumber, UP 8444 comes out of the roundhouse to stretch her legs the day before its deadhead run to Denver
Title:  1096-14 After a long slumber, UP 8444 comes out of the roundhouse to stretch her legs the day before its deadhead run to Denver
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1977  Upload Date: 5/4/2007 1:48:21 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8444(4-8-4)
Views:  841   Comments: 0


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