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Faculdade de Educação FÃsica, localizada junto ao Centro OlÃmpico da Universidade de BrasÃlia.
Foto: Luis Gustavo Prado/Secom UnB.
Union Pacific FEF-3 No. 844 and newly restored Big Boy No. 4014 take part in the Spike 150 Celebration in Ogden, UT. The two locomotives were parked face-to-face, recreating that historic moment when the Union Pacific's locomotive No. 119 and the Central Pacific's locomotive "Jupiter" came together face-to-face at Promontory Summit, completing the first Transcontinental Railroad 150 years ago.
Faculdade de Educação FÃsica, localizada junto ao Centro OlÃmpico da Universidade de BrasÃlia.
Foto: Luis Gustavo Prado/Secom UnB.
Faculdade de Educação FÃsica, localizada junto ao Centro OlÃmpico da Universidade de BrasÃlia.
Foto: Luis Gustavo Prado/Secom UnB.
Faculdade de Educação FÃsica, localizada junto ao Centro OlÃmpico da Universidade de BrasÃlia.
Foto: Luis Gustavo Prado/Secom UnB.
FEF 42V
1980 Ford Transcontinental 4435
Dave Allen Transport, Broadwinsor, Dorset
British Motor Museum, Gaydon, 11 June 2017
Faculdade de Educação FÃsica, localizada junto ao Centro OlÃmpico da Universidade de BrasÃlia.
Foto: Luis Gustavo Prado/Secom UnB.
Faculdade de Educação FÃsica, localizada junto ao Centro OlÃmpico da Universidade de BrasÃlia.
Foto: Luis Gustavo Prado/Secom UnB.
27th September 2014., Dublin Airport, Ireland
The latest addition to the growing Ryanair fleet arrives into Dublin at 1430 local time after its non stop flight from Boeing field in Seattle, Washington State, United States
EI-FEF Boeing 737-8AS operated by Ryanair, on short final approach to runway 23 at Glasgow on 9th November 2014
Guayaquil (Guayas), 20 de abril 2018.- El presidente de la República, LenÃn Moreno, encabezó la firma del Acuerdo de Cooperación entre la Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol (FEF) y Qatar Football Association (QFA). En este acto también se contó con la presencia de la ministra del Deporte, Pamela Morcillo. Foto: Pablo Reinoso / Presidencia de la República
#FEF #frontendfriday aka Front End Friday
Friday frequently sees all sorts of random locos briefly passing through Brew Street. Double Denim Dancing Dando appears to be rather smitten with this one, so does a quick shimmy for the camera. It’s the sort of loco that with its graceful lines looks like it could be the star of the dancehall, not that locomotives do such very often. But I know nothing….
He needs to be quick though, because in a minute or three, another engine will take its place posing before the camera, which could be anything from a Class 142 to an A4 Pacific or even a nuclear flask wagon - though he isn’t too keen on such because of the radiation, albeit super low, can make his false teeth rattle.
In the distance, I see our moonshiners are parked up outside The Kettle Inn, though with such a noisy steamy beast, they really should take more care and not draw too much attention to themselves. They’re popped by to cheer the ladies with the the weekly wasp chewing competition, it being a popular event with the local ‘geeza birds’ off the local estate especially after a few shots of 180% proof hooch.
The loco is a 4-4-2 Adams Radial by Oxford Rail. Google will tell you more.
The locomotive built to lead a nation at war.
A build long in the making...for well over a year and spanning many life changes that attempted to derail this project, Union Pacific #844 finally emerges from my workshop.
UP #844 has captured my imagination since childhood, appearing in several mini-series, TV shows and ads from the early 1990’s. With a sleek body, brutish flat face, high stepping drivers and enormous smoke deflectors, it embodies every definition of monstrous speed and power.
Manufactured by the American Locomotive Company and delivered to UP in 1944 to accommodate both wartime traffic and the projected increase in passenger service after the war, #835-844 were built upon the nearly perfected FEF-1 and FEF-2 series of locomotives delivered between 1937-1939. The entire FEF-3 series proved to be a masterpiece of design and was continuously called upon to lead top priority freight and passenger service.
#844 was delivered on a cold December day in 1944 as the final steam locomotive ever received by UP. Truly an unsleeping giant, #844 is the only steam locomotive of any American Class 1 railroad that has never been struck from the roster. Throughout her revenue career, she headed express freight, fast mail, and the most prestigious passenger trains of the central high plains and mountainous west – The Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited, Portland Rose, and Pony Express.
Fitted with 80-inch drivers and a 300 psi operating boiler pressure, #844 generates 63,800 lbs of tractive effort. She was designed to comfortably haul a 1,000-ton train at 100 mph and would regularly run at 120 mph.
Significant research was put into this model. Before even laying out the frame I had compiled an 80-year timeline documenting every minor, and major, upgrade, repainting, and alteration. I had one specific goal in mind: to capture her high-speed passenger service essence. As such, I have modeled her exactly as she would have appeared in April of 1949 – oil burning, with a Sellers exhaust steam injector and painted in the famous two-tone gray of Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray. I am proud to say that this is one of the most accurate representations of a two-tone gray FEF-3 in the modeling world.
This model is 8-wide and precisely 1:48 scale. #844 represents the absolute apex of duel-service steam and I want this model to represent nothing less. It is powered by two L power function motors in a 1:1 gear ratio so that she has both high tractive effort and can travel at high speed. The tender is fitted with a power functions control switch and two V2 IR receivers, one dedicated to each motor, powered by a 20c 7.4V Turnigy battery.
I design all my models with usability in mind. That being said, due to the #844’s unavoidable long legs, the locomotive can technically snake its way through R56 curves but is much happier with R120. I will pride myself in saying that the tender can navigate R40 due to my engineering of a unique design to conquer the flexibility challenges that plagues centipede tenders.
Custom wheels and drivers were sourced from Brick Train Depot and Breckland Bricks while the Walschaerts valve gear is from Trained Bricks. I want to particularly thank Monty’s Trains who designed and printed all stickers you see on this model. Monty also provided the technical experience that allowed me to upgrade from a standard Lego battery pack to the vastly superior LiPo world.
I strive to make my models both detailed and accessible. As such, instructions ARE available for this model in both two-tone gray and black (accurately dated to July 1954). Additionally, both liveries come with simple and complex valve gear instructions.
Today known as The Living Legend, UP #844 is the last of a great breed and represents the absolute apex of duel-service steam as one of the most powerful, prestigious and well-engineered Northern type locomotives of all time.
I feel extremely grateful to the Union Pacific Steam Team for ensuring that, through unquantifiable amounts of continuous labor, #844’s clock is not approaching twilight, but held at dawn. She is poised to travel the high iron for time eternal, forever roaring across the heartland plains and into the rising sun.
Thank you everyone for taking time to read this post, I greatly appreciate your questions, comments and praise. This model represents the end of a personal era, and I appreciate all the encouragement and support that I received from the community along the way. Railroading and Lego modeling are my passions, and I am happy to be part of these growing communities.
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