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Since posting, I have learned they were in fact shaken down on NYC en route to UP. At 1:20 P.M. on Saturday, April 1, 1939, the two-unit team-turbine-electric locomotive Union Pacific Road Numbers 1 and 2 (builders numbers 12136 and 12137) and nicknamed the “streamlined camels,” was considered finally ready for service and left Erie for delivery to UP. They were the only condensing steam locomotives built and operated in the U.S. Behind the two units were UP baggage car No. 4450 and ten NYC coaches. The crew stopped in Toledo, Ohio for the night. Sunday morning, the locomotive and ten cars left behind a section of the 20th Century Limited, arriving at Porter, Indiana, two hours and forty minutes later at 9:00 A.M. The ten coaches were left behind on a siding while the twin locomotives and the UP baggage car transferred to the EJ&E for the run to Chicago. Progress halted in South Bend, Ind. when a coupler’s knuckle broke on the rear of unit 2 releasing the baggage car. They didn’t arrive at West Chicago until 1:20 P.M. The Union Pacific finally took delivery of the two General Electric-built units in Omaha at 4:40 P.M. on Monday, April 3. Thanks for your help.
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