Union Pacific Monday

I don't have a lot of UP in my collection but have these items and a few UP freight cars and cabooses.

Did somebody say UP?

Can't have a UP thread without a Big Boy making an appearance!

Here are a few of mine:

My Lionel Vision Line Challenger operating on the Golden Gate Lionel RR Club layout earlier this month.

Ray

Rusty

Marx - UP Freight

Lionel 1936 UP set

American Flyer ca 1919

Union Pacific, I love the VL Big Boys, great thread, great pictures and videos fellows. Happy Railroading Everyone

Larry, I love your photos as you have a great layout with wonderful equipment. But most of all in all your photos it shows that you are having FUN! Thanks for sharing!

@leapinlarry posted:

Union Pacific, I love the VL Big Boys, great thread, great pictures and videos fellows. Happy Railroading Everyone

Nice looking photos leapinlarry, great looking Big Boy, sharp layout!

Mark

UP  Monday........hmmmm.🤔      HEY , HEY  HEY  ...YO ...PASSENGERS !!!......

New guy running the passenger train ??? 

Great thread Dallas here’s some Uncle Pete’s

@lee drennen posted:

Great thread Dallas here’s some Uncle Pete’s

More great looking scenery from Lee's photo gallery.

That UP truck in the first scene is really nice Lee.

Dallas, great looking passenger train, but they forgot to stop and pick up the nice people waiting! LOL

Lee, wonderful looking UP trailers! Bet they would look great on a flat car!

@mike g. posted:

Dallas, great looking passenger train, but they forgot to stop and pick up the nice people waiting! LOL

Hey Mike....... a newbe running the passenger train.

Well I missed this thread on Monday but hey its only Wednesday...I'm retired sometimes lose track of the days!!

Here is another version of the locomotive in Robert S. Butler's freight, this one a Marx UP articulated passenger train made 1951-52.

Here a GE 44 Ton moves a UP caboose.

Best wishes...little late sorry

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well I missed this thread on Monday but hey its only Wednesday...I'm retired sometimes lose track of the days!!

Here is another version of the locomotive in Robert S. Butler's freight, this one a Marx UP articulated passenger train made 1951-52.

Here a GE 44 Ton moves a UP caboose.

Best wishes...little late sorry

Don

No need to be sorry Don.

It would have been a shame not to have seen the Marx UP locomotive.    No big deal to lose track of the days .........just don't lose the TRACK.

UP is my favorite RR!

Legacy UP E7 AB with MTH Premier smooth side passenger cars

Legacy DD35A & LC+2.0 Big Boy with Lionel die-cast UP ore cars (K-Line PFE reefers in the background)

WOW Don, that Marxs UP engine is older than me! I didn't even know they made model trains back then! Very cool looking, I just might have to keep my eyes open for one just to have it!

Mike, wonderful UP trains! It's a good thing you have that old Big boy to pull that DD35A! LOL Great videos!

@mike g. posted:

Mike, wonderful UP trains! It's a good thing you have that old Big boy to pull that DD35A! LOL Great videos!

Hard to say who was helping who, but that was a fun, big smoke lash-up!

Another of my PW Union Pacific 2023 bought dirt cheap, owner said it was inop. gave a good degrease and cleaning and back in action for another 60 yrs. with magnatraction another good runner with operating horn.

God Speed!

Caught these Uncle Pete’s in DeSoto Mo. today while driving home in front of the car shops. My Grandpa and Great Uncle retired from here in the early 1970s when it was MoPac

@lee drennen posted:

Caught these Uncle Pete’s in DeSoto Mo. today while driving home in front of the car shops. My Grandpa and Great Uncle retired from here in the early 1970s when it was MoPac

that's pretty cool, bet you got some good railroad stories, did you ever get to go in the plant? Down in Utica, NY we have a Union station and back in the day it was a huge rail yard not much left, they filled in the turntable that was a shame, The round house is still in use but as another owner non rail, Changes and history gone. nice post

Mark

@Sitka posted:

that's pretty cool, bet you got some good railroad stories, did you ever get to go in the plant? Down in Utica, NY we have a Union station and back in the day it was a huge rail yard not much left, they filled in the turntable that was a shame, The round house is still in use but as another owner non rail, Changes and history gone. nice post

Mark

Mark I was only around 3 years old when they retired I never got to go in the plant. Anyway back then Kids never could do something like that too much liability.  I had several friends that used to work there I should have took advantage of them working there and toured the plant. One of them just retired there he worked on the Thermoking Reefers the stories he would tell about working on the Army Reefers were very interesting how they dismount and mount them.

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Great looking UP scenes sir.

I've worked with those heavy RR ties in the past...........I would not want to get the guys in the white shirt and the one with the tie on his shoulder mad at me.

Here's a video I just shot of my Lionel UP PA AA's pulling a string of MTH cars that have been upgraded with Gunrunnerjohn's great LED electronics. The many passengers are enjoying a nice ride around the layout:

My K-Line Big Boy moving some freight, HAGD Thank a Vet

Rusty

Here’s my new UP schnabel flatcar as well as a PS1 Premier (MTH) boxcar from Atlas and others:

A trio of SD70ACe locomotives await their turn for clearance out of the yard

Up Diesel Power.  

https://youtu.be/UrFigwelukc

@Sitka posted:

Don't know if anyone has started anything for Monday, so here is Union Pacific Monday a PW 2023 AA unit, along with a dummy U.P. that I picked up for about 30.00 bucks. Great running engine well built horn works along with magnatraction, wish they kept this alco style around. HAGD Mark

Good news for you is that they have. Lionel has offered them in many road names in their LionChief Plus line of trains.

@Sitka posted:

Don't know if anyone has started anything for Monday, so here is Union Pacific Monday a PW 2023 AA unit, along with a dummy U.P. that I picked up for about 30.00 bucks. Great running engine well built horn works along with magnatraction, wish they kept this alco style around. HAGD Mark

"30.00 bucks" .......not sure if that is a fair price for a dummy but it sure is not as a ridiculous price than what can be found on one of the auction sites .

Happy Uncle Pete Monday here’s todays

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Lets see that was two years ago 30 .00 bucks, today they have one for 47.00 or best offer, shipping 19.10, I take the 30.00 and 7.00 bucks shipping 2 yrs ago, then another site wont mention who, 027 passenger car 23.00 and 22.00 for shipping, You can't win today, have to catch it just right, God Speed.

Here we have a Lionel Union Pacific 4-4-0 set with whistle and smoke.  The smoke just pours out LOL

MTH Northern 4-8-4 With Passenger cars.

Here is some of my UP equipment on display in my “great room”. A couple of Amtrak superliners are hanging out there too:

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Well I thought that today I might post what you could say was..."a face only a mother could love".  The Union Pacific M10,000 articulated streamliner by Marx from 1936-37.

Here is the front power car showing the correct side lettering identifying the fact that the car contained a United States Railway Post Office (RPO).  Marx made this set in several color combinations.

Like I said, a face only a mother could love

Top view showing the exhaust vents (simulated) for the engine and the first articulated coach.

Here is the entire train (note there is another coach in this set, others can have more I removed that for space) the last car is labeled "Buffet Lounge"

Well that is my UP train for today.

Best Wishes

Don

I knew I had this video, it just took me a while to find it. My Lionel 2033 AB set with an MTH Snow Plow. Hope this works. (I apologize for the excessive panning. I had to edit the size of this video file to fit the constraints of the max download. It zoomed in the video as well. I'm surprised I was able to do what I did.)

Check out Chris’ layout update video for some great UP Big Boy action.

Chris’ layout update post.

This Monday finds the west bound City of Los Angeles flying by.

Meanwhile a string of Pacific Fruit Express refrigerator cars, lead by a Challenger, heads eastbound with a load of produce.

@Lou1985 posted:

This Monday finds the west bound City of Los Angeles flying by.

Meanwhile a string of Pacific Fruit Express refrigerator cars, lead by a Challenger, heads eastbound with a load of produce.

Fast moving trains, Nice

I received a MIB 2000 Union Pacific 4-6-2 Pacific Saturday which replaces a UP 2-8-0 Consolidation. The Consolidation had quit smoking again, so rather than mess with another repair, I just sold it as is on Ebay and got $49 more than I'd paid for it almost 2 years ago.

I like the forlorn sound of the steam whistle on the new Pacific and it'll pull out a tree stump.

Ron

Well just to keep this thread going, because I love the pictures and videos that others have posted, I will add my very small contribution.  After the incredible detail contained in everyone's pictures, especially the loco posted by PRRonbh this should be considered the complete opposite end of the detail / scale distribution.  Anyway here is the Marx 6" UP cattle car.

Best wishes to all on this Monday.  Have a healthy and happy week.

Don

Busy Monday some PW Lionel Union Pacific's Alco passing each other on a night run.

Here’s the Union Pacific Yellowstone Special in its later years pulled by an EMD F7 AB (both powered) passing a UP freight.

This is a Union Pacific consist running on my 10'-by-5' layout.

MELGAR

Here's mine for today 8/28/23.

MELGAR and Ted: I like your videos. But, you might want to get into the habit of sounding the horn as the engine approaches grade crossings. Could help prevent a nasty accident. 😉

Here is my Marx 1998 UP Alco S3 switcher available 1955-1962

Here is the powered 1998 and a "dummy" 1998 pairing up to head a freight up the main line...

Best Wishes

Don

Wow, for some reason I do not think I’ve posted on this great thread, of one of the most beautiful railroads in the USA.. I plan to go back to the beginning and review all the cool pictures and videos. @Don McErlean, those are beautiful Marx UP switchers, and adds color to your beautiful layout. I wish everyone a happy UNION PACIFIC MONDAY,     WHOOPS I did post on page 1….. Sorry for the duplication….

@leapinlarry - Hey Mate, thanks for the compliment on my Marx items.  Glad you, Capt Peraff, and that bathing beauty got in the pictures today

Best wishes

Don

Weekend's over and another UP Monday already.

Enjoy the week everyone........God speed.

OK here just for some fun are a few of my "UP" trains...

First the Classic Lionel 2023 Union Pacific Alco PA  from 1950-51

A Lionel (MPC) #9203 UP Boxcar from 1970

And the face "only a Mother could love" the Marx M 10000 from 1936-37.  I have read that despite being much less expensive and less "scale like" than the offerings of Lionel and later American Flyer, Marx was the only one of the big three that got the power car correct, it was in actuality an RPO not a coach.  Interesting if true.

Happy UP Monday and Happy Labor Day

Don

Uncle Pete's GP30 on test run after rebuild with 645 block,

Nice looking photos guys hope all had a good Labor Day.

The Marx M 10000 was my father's train set. He handed it down to me. I am now 78! I usually break out the M 10000 and put it on the Christmas layout and it still runs! I always wondered what the original headlight bulb looked like when it was new.

John

Here's a couple of shots of my Union Pacific F sets. The first one is the TMCC F3 ABBA as of last December. The second one is the Legacy F7 ABBA, which replaced the F3 set as of last January.

@John Knapp-  John I loved your tale of you father's Marx M10000.  I am 79 but my toy train legacy was Lionel (started in 1947) so I can't match your history with the M10000.  I am very glad to hear yours is still running and providing you pleasure.  Marx (and I am now a Marx fan and collector) has a great reputation of building solid, reliable, toys that almost always run regardless of age.  I got this M10000 at a train show perhaps 25 + years ago so I can't guarantee that the bulb is original, it is original as far as I am concerned as I have never replaced it.  Oh yes...it still runs!!

Best Wishes

Don