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UP GP40 509 George's Creek |
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Union Pacific Railroad GP40 509 and 502 at Yellville, Arkansas on December 11, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 509 appears to have been originally MKT GP40 203. It is pictured on the George's Creek bridge, the original bridge structure was built in April 1903, a 1900 foot long, 60 foot high wood trestle, built to accept engines weighing 86 tons, and in 1903 there was no highway below it. I'm researching when the steel replacement was built, sometime in the 1930's. Previous to the steel replacement, the speed restriction on the wood trestle was 12 mph. Quote from Mike Adams book: "One of the more far reaching programs outlined in 1915 was to fill in 47 of the 57 high trestles between Cotter and Crane. The other 10 would be re-built as steel and concrete trestles. The original trestles were built with the best grade of wood but their useful life was approaching an end. As work progressed it became apparent that earthen fill was the best method, and eventually only four of the great trestles were re-built with steel although some were a combination of fill and steel due to circumstances. Work started in 1915 and was not completed for another 20 years. The longest bridge, that spanned the George's Creek Valley, was 1900 feet long." The bridge is perhaps 50 years old by the time of the photograph, and crosses over a highway, which in turn crosses over a creek. There are several triple crossings of this nature in the US, here is one. Most of this information is from the book, 'The White River Railway', by Walter (Mike) Adams. |
| Photo Date: |
12/11/1983 Upload Date: 10/24/2010 10:13:09 PM |
| Location: |
Yellville, AR |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster,Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
UP 509(GP40) UP 502(GP40) |
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| Title: |
UP GP40 508 |
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Union Pacific Railrocd GP40 508 at Cotter, Arkansas on an unknown day in June 1995, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This may be an M&NA unit, but there is no lettering to that effect. The two disconnected concrete items between the poles were once stand pipes for watering steam locomotives. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1995 Upload Date: 8/30/2014 1:24:37 PM |
| Location: |
Cotter, AR |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
UP 508(GP40) |
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463 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP B30-7A 246 |
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Union Pacific Railroad B30-7A 246 at Cotter, Arkansas on May 6, 1990, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Also seen is UP GP40 509 and MP GP38-2 2273. |
| Photo Date: |
5/6/1990 Upload Date: 9/12/2018 6:25:44 PM |
| Location: |
Cotter, AR |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
UP 509(GP40) MP 2273(GP38-2) |
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370 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP GP40 509 |
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Union Pacific Railroad GP40 509 at Pyatt, Arkansas on December 11, 1993, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. |
| Photo Date: |
12/11/1993 Upload Date: 7/19/2014 10:47:13 AM |
| Location: |
Pyatt, AR |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 509(GP40) |
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334 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP GP40 515 |
| Description: |
Union Pacific Railroad GP40 515 at Cotter, Arkansas on May 15, 19:4, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. |
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5/15/1994 Upload Date: 1/24/2015 5:41:01 PM |
| Location: |
Cotter, AR |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
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Yard |
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UP 515(GP40) MNA 3078(GP40M) MNA 640(GP40) |
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466 Comments: 0 |
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UP GP38-2 2211 |
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Union Pacific Railroad GP38-2 2211 and GP40 590 at Cotter, Arkansas on March 1, 1992, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1992 Upload Date: 3/30/2015 12:58:27 PM |
| Location: |
Cotter, AR |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
UP 2211(GP38-2) UP 590(GP40) |
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327 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP GP40 640 |
| Description: |
Union Pacific Railroad GP40 640 at Denver, Colorado on March 13, 1983, Kodachrome by Jim Altman, Chuck Zeiler collection. Although this locomotive left EMD's plant painted as Rock Island 4709, it was owned by the UP and leased to the Rock. When the Rock shut down on March 31, 1980, all but nine of the original 60 leased GP40's were returned to the UP. |
| Photo Date: |
3/13/1983 Upload Date: 2/8/2013 3:24:43 PM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Jim Altman |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
UP 640(GP40) |
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553 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP GP40'660 |
| Description: |
Union Pacific railroad GP40 660 at Cotter, Arkansas on December 11, 1992, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. |
| Photo Date: |
12/11/1992 Upload Date: 8/28/2018 1:40:22 PM |
| Location: |
Cotter, AR |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
UP 660(GP40) |
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279 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP GP40 660 |
| Description: |
Union Pacific Railroad GP40 660 on the last northbound UP train out of Cotter, Arkansas on December 11, 1992, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The next day the rails were leased to and operated by the Missouri & Northern Arransas Railroad. Number 660 was built in April 1967 as WP GP40 3511 (c/n 33056) on EMD Order 7981, became UP 660 on July 16, 1984, was retired by the UP April 5, 1993 and retured to the lessor. It was rebuilt by Morrison Knudsen, completed as a GP40-2 for the KCS and numbered 4774 on January 4, 1994. The bridge was built in 1903, with the survey work and planning begun by the White River Railway, which was purchased by the Saint Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway on March 26, 1903. At the time, this location was known as Lake's Ferry, but the name was changed to Cotter, named after William Cotter, a manager on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Both the StLIM&S and MP were interests of Jay Gould, and the purpose of the bridge and route was to connect the two properties. The Army Corps of Engineers determined that the White River was navigable, so a turn span was built to allow passage of river traffic, which all but disappeared after the arrival of the railroad. When the bridge was completed, the span was turned just once for testing, and never turned again. It may appear that there is plenty of room for river barges to pass below, but before the dam was built about ten miles upstream, spring floods would raise the river to within a few feet of the bottom of the bridge, flooding the railroad yard and roundhouse just a few hundred yards downstream. |
| Photo Date: |
12/11/1992 Upload Date: 12/23/2010 3:08:27 PM |
| Location: |
Cotter, AR |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 660(GP40) |
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594 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP GP40 859 |
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Union Pacific Railroad GP40 859 at Saint Louis, Missouri on February 17 1991, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. According to utahrails.net, number 859 was built in May 1966 as SAL GP40 600 (c/n 31767), later became SCL 1515, then SBD 6672, then CSX 6672, then VMV 6672. The 859 was on long term lease from Helm Financial beginning in January 1989, returned to Helm for reconditioning and back to the UP as 859. It was returned to Helm once again (unknown date), rebuilt to a GP38-2 and leased to UP as UP 2536 on September 9, 1998. |
| Photo Date: |
2/17/1991 Upload Date: 5/17/2013 12:29:13 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Louis, MO |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
UP 859(GP40) |
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375 Comments: 0 |
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