I spotted this historic Union Pacific photo at My Link page Yesteryear Depot.Com, wich is located to the right of Your computer screen.

This photo was taken around sunset at Ogden Utah USA one evening, back in 1949.

The Union Pacific Railroad, has always been a nationwide favorite amongst railfans for many years. Proboubly one of the key reasons being, is that they were a late user of regular service steam locomotives. Steam trains were operated by the Union Pacific until 1959. The Union Pacific has also set aside many for historic preservation at many on line towns and railroad museums. The Union Pacific has also operated numerous mainline steam excursions with preserved and operable 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive # 844, and the "Giant" 4-6-6-4 Challenger type articulated steam locomotive # 3985.

In this photo taken around sunset one evening way back in 1949, Union Pacific dual service 4 -8- 2 Mountain type steam locomotive # 7855, is leading U.P passenger train # 31 "The Butte Special" in to the Ogden Utah station.

Prior to the Union Pacific standardizing on todays yellow and gray paint scheme used on passenger trains and diesel locomotives during the 1940's, the U.P experimented with a unique and stylish two tone gray color scheme with either silver or yellow color seperation stripes. Yjis color scheme was known a the U.P "Grayhound" paint scheme.

For a few years during the late 1980's and early 1990's Union Pacific 4-8-4 # 844 was repainted in to this color scheme, and operated on mainline passenger fantrips.

Although the Union Pacific was very generous about saving some steam locomotives at the end of the 1950's, a few wheel arrangement types were cut up for scrap, and permanently lost to history. Unfortunately, non of the U.P 4-8-2's were saved.

Still, this is an outstanding photograph from a very outstanding railroad. Nice!

Thanks.
Eddie K.