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GE GTEL 8500

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GE GTEL 8500
Posted by chefjavier on Monday, January 28, 2008 9:11 PM

http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=69414

Does the UP still have of this locomotive on their heritage roster?

 

Javier
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:38 AM

They were all off the roster by 1969, long before the Heritage roster came to be.  I believe that there is one GTEL set preserved somewhere.

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Posted by SSW9389 on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:15 PM
Union Pacific #26 is at Ogden Union Station, Utah. Union Pacific #18 is at the Illinios Railway Museum at Union, Illinois.
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Posted by arkansasrailfan on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:05 PM
18 needs a new paint job
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