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Union Pacific 4-8-4 FEF-3 class ALCO Northern steam locomotive # 8444 with its railfan excursion train is stopped on a double ended siding in the late afternoon sun as it waits for another train to pass while on its return trip to Denver, Col, summer 1980. Various passenger and photographers stepped off the train while waiting for the met, but there was already a group of observers on hand at this location.
Union Pacific FEF-3 class 4-8-4 ALCO Northern steam locomotive # 8444, is seen at the end of a photo run-by while preparing to stop at KERSEY, Colorado, July 26, 1980. The crowd of rail fans, photographers & observers are mostly preparing to re-board the train at this time.
Union Pacific FEF-3 4-8-4 class ALCO Northern steam locomotive # 8444, is seen while passing by with a rail fan excursion train on the main line as it performs a photo run-by in Colorado, July 26, 1980. The train is about to pass through a grade crossing, as indicated by the crossbucks. You may observe rail fans standing in the doors of the baggage car.
It’s front end Friday again, aka #FEF for hashtag fanatics and collectors.
Here we are at Catcott, and it looks like Bob Geeza Cat is about to leap onto locomotive footplates again after his successful attempt a month or two ago.
Bob has many fans, here in the land of the inch high and that fangled internet thingamajig, so a good turnout is ensured especially from the pointers and wavers. Though I’d expect to see smarmy ladies’ man Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe trying to run some betting scam, I’m sure he’s here out of frame - such a bounder and a cad.
We’ve not seen our moonshiners with Sentinel steam lorry for a while, so here it is, its hot still no doubt in full flow brewing illicit liquor whilst on the move (or stationary in this case because of the crossing).
Go Bob! But remember to get off at the next scheduled stop at Glastonbury, for last time you had a snooze in the warm cab and ended up in Poole goods yard and had to spend the night with Nasal Nigel in an old plate-layer’s hut with only his throbbing TT gauge ‘Flying Scotsman’ for warmth.
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Another photo from the impromptu car shoot from a few weeks ago. For FEF or "Front End Friday" as the car enthusiasts like to call it!
Union Pacific FEF-3 class 4-8-4 ALCO Northern steam locomotive # 8444, is seen leading a rail fan excursion train at speed during a photo run-by on a main line in Colorado, July 26, 1980. Fortunately is was able to rush to this location to capture this action image.
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Union Pacific FEF-3 class 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive # 8444. is seen leading a rail fan excursion train along the main line in Colorado, July 26, 1980. It is getting late in the day when this photo was taken at the end of a photo run-by.
Union Pacific ALCO 4-8-4 FEF-3 class Northern steam locomotive # 8444, leading a rail fan excursion train is seen at end of photo-run-by in Colorado, July 26, 1980 - 4. The passengers will shortly board the train to continue the trip back to Denver.
Outside of Poole Bus Garage
on Sunday 29 August 2021
is Go Ahead South Coast / More Bus
Optare Solo
3716 MX53 FEF.
Deveron Coaches Optare Solo SR Hybrid YJ62 FEF and Optare Solo MX06 ABV seen on Bridge Road in Banff whilst operating duplicates on service 300 Banff / Macduff Town Service.
Cab view. For this setup I referenced historical photographs of the FEF-3 or FEF-2 locomotives that had just received their conversion to oil burning. I also attempted to incorporate touches of metallic silver or metallic gold.
Union Pacific #844 is one of the most iconic locomotives that has ever graced the main line. Both powerful and elegant, she has captured the attention and imagination of railfans since her delivery to Union Pacific in December of 1944.
#844 was the last steam locomotive delivered to UP and the only steam locomotive of any American Class 1 railroad that has never been retired. She has seen revenue and excursion service for over 78 years. During this time, she has had several modifications and upgrades. Some minor, such as a livery change and some major such as a Worthington SA feedwater heater added around 1955.
For this build, I wanted to capture her essence and model her as she would have appeared in April of 1949. A careful eye will note several key features: by this time she was modified to be oil burning, a mars light had been installed, she was still using the Sellers exhaust steam injector and she wore the two-tone gray paint scheme in Harbor Mist Gray and Armour Yellow.
This model is 8-wide, 1:48 scale and displays #844 as she would have been seen while pulling the Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited or Portland Rose in April of 1949. #844 represents the absolute apex of duel-service steam and I want this model to represent nothing less. It is powered by two large power function motors with a 3:5 gear ratio so that she has both high tractive effort and can travel at high speed.
Next step…building the instructions and ordering parts!
One owner from new and packed to the roof with boxes - I really felt for the suspension! It doesn't cover many miles and flies through each MOT every year.
Towngate Bridge, working the 11.40 Route-1
Poole Bus Station to Poole Bus Station
Poole Quay Circular service
on Saturday 19 June 2021
is Go Ahead South Coast / More Bus
Optare Solo
3716 MX53 FEF.
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Temporary route 541 is scheduled to be withdrawn from 16th November 2014 when Victoria Dock Road reopens after Crossrail work. Then, of course routes 147 and 241 can revert to running via Keir Hardie estate to Canning Town. Go-Ahead Docklands Buses 945 YN56 FEF, still wears its former Metrobus branding, lays over at Prince Regent bus station - its driver showing an interest in my activity. Sunday 19th October 2014. DSCN31784.
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Union Pacific railfan excursion train led by FEF-3 class 4-8-4 ALCO Northern steam locomotive # 8444 waits on double ended siding while an on coming freight train led by SD40-2 # 8077 passes on a main line in Colorado, summer 1980. Numerous railfan are standing in the various cars vestibules with the dutch doors opened so that may either observe or photograph the on coming freight train. In this area of the excursion trip we are situated in big farm country. You can see the engineer and perhaps the head brakeman in the SD40-2 cab. The steam engine tender was located one coach and a baggage car ahead of my coach dutch door window, and you can see one of the elephant ears sticking out from the steam locomotives side. Notice that some of the UNION PACIFIC red lettering lettering has peeled of the front of the locomotive.
Outside of Poole Bus Garage
on Sunday 11 July 2021
is Go Ahead South Coast / More Bus
Optare Solo
3716 MX53 FEF.
Towngate Bridge, working the 12.00 Route-898 ASDA Flyer
Poole Bus Station to ASDA Free Bus service
on Saturday 14 March 2020
is Go Ahead South Coast / More Bus
Optare Solo
3716 MX53 FEF.
Union Pacific's FEF Class locomotive. These elegant engines were capable of well over 100 MPH. This 1/87th model is in UP's handsome passenger livery.
Go-Ahead London Central WVN8 LK59 FEF on the 269 in Perry Street, Chislehurst. Tuesday 18th March 2025. DSCN61786.
WVN8 was transferred from Docklands Buses at SI after service on route 473, 10th January 2025. It commenced at BX on 31st January, route 601, and was one of about forty vehicles needed when GA took over routes 96, 269 and 401 from Arriva on 18th January. Electric vehicles will come later tis year.
Volvo B9TL - Wrightbus Eclipse Gemini 2 10.4m.
Photo (c) GJW 2025.
Union Pacific ALCO 4-8-4 Northern FEF-3 class steam locomotive # 8444, is passing under a roadway overpass with a rail fan excursion train while heading to the station at Sterling, Colorado, July 26, 1980. The train has just been turned on the Burlington Northern wye and will be picking up passengers at the station for the return trip back to Denver.
Union Pacific FEF-3 class 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive # 8444, is seen while passing through a grade crossing with rail fan excursion train on a main line, as numerous observers watch in Colorado, July 26, 1980. You can see the engineer and cab crew members in this view.
YX10 FEF
2010 Alexander Dennis Enviro200 B29D
Redline Buses, Aylesbury
Buckingham, 30 November 2021
New to Travel London
Stagecoach London (82004 (was originally numbered 14604), LV73 FEF, Catford (Bellingham)/Bromley Road (TL)-based) at Canada Water Bus Station, Canada Water, London. Body no AU930, delivered new 17/09/2023 via Birkenhead Docks.
Union Pacific FEF-2 Northern 4-8-4 steam locomotive # 822, is seen hauling a passenger train at Cheyenne, Wyoming, 10-15-1955. The train is handling quite a few headend cars as it heads for the mainline. Check out the new Oldsmobile located on the far left side of the photo. Note the highway truss bridge located over the tracks. Photo courtesy of Sylvain Assez's railroad photo collection. Sylvain is an active French railway locomotive engineer.
The name of the photographer that took this photo is unknown.
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Union Pacific FEF-3 class 4-8-4 ALCO Northern steam locomotive # 8444, is seen while stopped on the main line with a rail fan excursion train in Colorado, July 26, 1980. The train is stopped just before a country road grade crossing. The rail fans, observers & photographers are out examining the train.
Union Pacific 4-8-4 FEF-3 class ALCO Northern steam locomotive # 8444 led railfan excursion train is getting its tender filled with water while at the station in Sterling, Colorado, summer 1980. Water is being supplied by canvas style fire hoses being controlled by the crew on the top of the tender. Many of the people may not realize that this is how they typically fill the tender in modern times. You may also observe two crew members wearing blue hardhats that are greasing the locomotive rod bearings.
Outside of Poole Bus Garage
on Sunday 18 July 2021
is Go Ahead South Coast / More Bus
Optare Solo
3716 MX53 FEF.
Union Pacific
Former UP 8444
Union Pacific 844 Class FEF-3 was built by the American Locomotive Company in December 1944. She has 80 inch drivers, boiler pressure of 300 lbs, 25 x 32 inch Cylinders and can deliver 63,750 pounds of tractive effort.
The FEF was a series of three types of 4-8-4 steam locomotives owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railway. The classes were: FEF-1; FEF-2; FEF-3. "FEF" was an acronym for the wheel arrangement, "four-eight-four."
FEF-3
Except for the use of some substitute materials, the final batch of ten were nearly identical to the FEF-2. After World War II, coal supplies were affected by a series of strikes. In order to safeguard operations, UP converted the 800s to oil burning, and a 6,000 US gallons (23,000 l; 5,000 imp gal) tank was fitted in the bunker space. Otherwise, few modifications were needed to insure years of mainline service. These were the last steam locomotives delivered for the UP. 844, the last of the FEF-3 class, is the longest continuously operating 4-8-4 engine in the world, and the only one never retired by a Class I railroad. Like many of the "late era" steam locomotives, their final design was cut short by the advent of new monarchs of the rails, diesels. Although it is stated that the UP FEF series was designed to safely operate at 120 mph (190 km/h), no one really knows how fast the final 4-8-4 could go
Union Pacific ALCO 4-8-4 Northern FEF-3 class steam locomotive # 8444, is seen while stopped on the main line with a rail fan excursion train after a photo-run-by in Colorado, July 26, 1980. Rail fans and train crew members are standing near the locomotive. An old style block signal # 759 is just ahead of the locomotive and it provides a location for the railroad.
Union Pacific ALCO 4-8-4 Northern FEF-3 class steam locomotive # 8444, is seen at the station with a rail fan excursion train in Sterling, Colorado, July 26, 1980 - 2. The complete 12 car smooth side lightweight train can be seen in this view. Numerous passengers, rail fans, photographers, observers and on-lookers are standing around to observe the train.