UP 1989 at Pehrson Siding
Reminiscing about my prior visit to Pehrson. A train of empty well cars is brought to be stored in the siding with heritage unit UP 1989 in the mix. The distant Oquirrh Mountains and the wide expanse of Rush Valley dominates the scene.
Other's have expressed it better than I could, but 1989 perhaps has the most "what were they thinking?" Heritage Unit scheme in the fleet with the gray nose. While the aspen gold and black lining is an obvious tribute to the passenger scheme on the DRGW, the gray feels like a pale imitation of the silver tones the original inspiration once used. If the current UP heritage fleet was ever retired, I feel like an approach similar to Norfolk Southern's units with more literal translations of the original schemes would be the best approach for replacements; but it is hard to knock UP as the forerunner of the shockingly fan favorite trademark protection heritage unit scheme for lacking the refinement their successors had.
UP 1989 at Pehrson Siding
Reminiscing about my prior visit to Pehrson. A train of empty well cars is brought to be stored in the siding with heritage unit UP 1989 in the mix. The distant Oquirrh Mountains and the wide expanse of Rush Valley dominates the scene.
Other's have expressed it better than I could, but 1989 perhaps has the most "what were they thinking?" Heritage Unit scheme in the fleet with the gray nose. While the aspen gold and black lining is an obvious tribute to the passenger scheme on the DRGW, the gray feels like a pale imitation of the silver tones the original inspiration once used. If the current UP heritage fleet was ever retired, I feel like an approach similar to Norfolk Southern's units with more literal translations of the original schemes would be the best approach for replacements; but it is hard to knock UP as the forerunner of the shockingly fan favorite trademark protection heritage unit scheme for lacking the refinement their successors had.