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UP 2001 & 2002
Posted by HarveyK400 on Friday, May 22, 2009 11:45 PM

Saw the UP blue Salt Lake City Olympics units (2001 and 2002?) at a distance switching some auto racks in the West Chicago, IL yard on Monday.  Missed them going by later.

I understand the units have been seen in the Chicago area recently.

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Posted by bubbajustin on Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:31 PM

You will have to talk to Carl Shaver about those locomotives. He has told me that those unit's have been hanging aroung the greater Chicago Area. 

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Posted by jrb1537 on Sunday, May 24, 2009 5:10 PM

 I've seen them several times at UP's little yard in Belvidere, IL.  Recently, though, just the local GP15s have been there.

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Posted by WC3023 on Sunday, May 24, 2009 8:54 PM

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I was at Rochelle Il.this morning 5-24-09 and they came through west bound with a short stack train plus empty well cars.They must have gone to Global III because they came back east bound and light about a hour later. Pretty neat sight!

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Posted by Railfan1 on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:17 PM

I was in Rochelle, IL on 5-6,7,8-09 and saw them pass through several times with short autoracks  and short intermodels trains.

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Posted by LWales on Saturday, June 6, 2009 12:18 AM

Was just around Rochelle, IL on Friday night, June 5 and the UP 2001/2002 went eastward on a stack train leading another couple of Armour Yellow locos about 6 PM. Others said they went west into Global 3 eariler in the day. So it seems that they are back running the shuttles between Global 3 and the Chicago-area facilities. Look for them between Chicago and Rochelle on the old C&NW main.

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