UP 6706 (CNW Patched) just pulled into Cheyenne.

[RailEagle]

Second locomotive out of five leading a grain train. Catch it while you can.

[Overmod]

Or UP patched 6236, otherwise still in SP bloody nose, out of Memphis.

Or any of the UNpatched IC SD70s operating through Memphis regularly (add 1032 to the list as of yesterday) -- although there is one that 'spoils' the unpatched perfection by having a noodle in place of Death Star on the hood ends...

[RailEagle]

Yeah, IIRC it's the last active CNW painted locomotive on the UP. I imagine that there are at least a few more patches SPs running.

[Overmod]

I wonder if the UP staff is still actively keeping 6706 out of the paint shop, as they were said to have done for so long?

Refresh my memory: is this one of the ones donated to a museum that were restored to service?

[SD70Dude]

Weren't both remaining C&NW Dash-9's stored at the Illinois Railway Museum for a while, along with other UP power?

My understanding was that they were not donated, only stored temporarily.

You can keep those Deathstar SD70s, if I never see another it'll be too soon.

[Leo_Ames]

I believe the two Dash 9's that spent several periods stored at IRM, got repainted a couple of years back when UP made a push to repaint the last few locomotives from merger partners (Which happily sounds like wasn't accomplished fully).

Edit: Here's a news story that Trains ran about that.

https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/12/18-last-cnw-locomotives-to-be-repainted-up

[Overmod]

According to the Trains story, both 'originals' were to receive very different road numbers ... perhaps this is an earlier 'patching' of C&NW like that given to SP/SSW units 'by 2016'.   In which case ... could there be more still in Stagecoach than 6706?

[RailEagle]

Overmod

I wonder if the UP staff is still actively keeping 6706 out of the paint shop, as they were said to have done for so long?

Refresh my memory: is this one of the ones donated to a museum that were restored to service?

 

 

No, it's an OP Lifesaver AC44CW that supposedly been scheduled to be repainted for at least 2 years. I believe the two unpatched units have since been repainte.