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UP turbine @ North Platte 1967
Title:  UP turbine @ North Platte 1967
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1967  Upload Date: 10/29/2007 10:01:32 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Howard Castellucio
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 51(4500 GTEL)
Views:  7198   Comments: 3
Titled "Westbound freight headed by gas turbine loco leaves Cheyenne. 1955
Title:  Titled "Westbound freight headed by gas turbine loco leaves Cheyenne. 1955
Description:  Titled "Westbound freight headed by gas turbine loco leaves Cheyenne. 1955
Photo Date:  1/2/1955  Upload Date: 1/2/2012 6:17:31 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  Wendy Crim
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 55(4500 GTEL)
Views:  3171   Comments: 1
UP 57 at Evanston
Title:  UP 57 at Evanston
Description:  Tom Gildersleeve set
Photo Date:  9/10/1955  Upload Date: 10/5/2024 3:33:43 AM
Location:  Evanston, WY
Author:  Tom Gildersleeve
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 57(4500 GTEL)
Views:  645   Comments: 1
Varied Power at Green River
Title:  Varied Power at Green River
Description:  UP 4018 waits its turn at the coal tower in Green River Ahead of it is an unknown 3900-series Challenger. UP turbine 58 was one of the original set of 4500 GTELs built in the early 50s. They would be retired in 1964, only a decade into their service life. Also in the picture is a pair of F3s in Armour Yellow. Obtained from Union Pacific Steam: Big Boy Portraits (Bush, Ehernberger)
Photo Date:  1/1/1954  Upload Date: 5/28/2021 8:56:37 PM
Location:  Green River, WY
Author:  Walter H. Thrall
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4018(4-8-8-4) UP 58(4500 GTEL) UP 3959(4-6-6-4) UP 1553(F3A)
Views:  1021   Comments: 0
UP 342B
Title:  UP 342B
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/1962  Upload Date: 4/13/2012 10:09:31 AM
Location:  Laramie, WY
Author:  George Kantola
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 342B(GP9B) UP 324(GP9) UP 60(4500 GTEL)
Views:  2499   Comments: 2
UP 60
Title:  UP 60
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/1962  Upload Date: 4/13/2012 10:09:27 AM
Location:  Laramie, WY
Author:  George Kantola
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 60(4500 GTEL)
Views:  2806   Comments: 0
UP GTEL 4500 #62 - Union Pacific
Title:  UP GTEL 4500 #62 - Union Pacific
Description:  This is one of the 2nd generation GTEL's (gas-turbine-electric locomotive) built by GE in March of 1954 as Union Pacific #62 (serial #32029). The loco was a model 4500 GTEL was an hybrid carbody & hood loco with an outside walkway which earned it the nickname the "Veranda"model. It was eventually equipped with multiple-unit controls to run with diesels. After only 9-10 years of service, the 2nd generation GTELs were retired between August 1963 to June, 1964. No location, date or photographer listed for the photo so approximates were used. It now is part of my rr collection..
Photo Date:  6/1/1960  Upload Date: 12/20/2025 7:02:51 AM
Location:  Unknown, WY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 62(4500 GTEL)
Views:  140   Comments: 0
UP #63
Title:  UP #63
Description:  A single GTEL eastbound at Archer, WY. Scanned with an Epson V550 from a 35mm slide, brand is unknown. Exact date is approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1957  Upload Date: 8/7/2016 9:19:37 PM
Location:  Archer, WY
Author:  Unknown/Paul Frantz Collection
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 63(4500 GTEL)
Views:  2123   Comments: 1
UP Turbin 63, 1962
Title:  UP Turbin 63, 1962
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1962  Upload Date: 2/2/2006 3:10:10 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  mark mcdowell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 63(4500 GTEL)
Views:  8084   Comments: 3
UP GTEL 63
Title:  UP GTEL 63
Description:  Union Pacific Railroad GTEL 63 on shop trucks at Omaha, Nebraska on an unknown day in July 1964, Kodachrome by Dick Rumbolz, Chuck Zeiler collection. Built in.March 1954 (c/n 32030), most of it was retired in August 1963. The span bolsters and trucks were re-conditioned by the UP and shipped to Erie, Pennsylvania for GE to inmtall under the U50's. The body was scrapped at an unknown date.
Photo Date:  7/1/1964  Upload Date: 4/30/2011 12:51:49 PM
Location:  Omaha, NE
Author: 
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 63(4500 GTEL)
Views:  3532   Comments: 0
UP 70
Title:  UP 70
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/2/1963  Upload Date: 4/13/2012 10:09:35 AM
Location:  Laramie, WY
Author:  George Kantola
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 70(4500 GTEL) UP 67(4500 GTEL) UP 66(4500 GTEL)
Views:  2684   Comments: 0
Turbine at Sherman Hill
Title:  Turbine at Sherman Hill
Description:  UP 70
Photo Date:  11/23/1959  Upload Date: 6/15/2010 8:31:12 PM
Location:  Sherman Hill, WY
Author:  H. Cavanaugh
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 70(4500 GTEL)
Views:  4588   Comments: 2
Gas Turbines, 1962
Title:  Gas Turbines, 1962
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1962  Upload Date: 1/31/2006 2:25:56 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  mark mcdowell
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 3(8500 GTEL) UP 72(4500 GTEL)
Views:  8395   Comments: 2
BNSF 5866
Title:  BNSF 5866
Description:  BNSF 5866
Photo Date:  7/11/2006  Upload Date: 7/17/2006 7:25:59 AM
Location:  Bill, WY
Author:  Keith B
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 72(4500 GTEL) BNSF 5866(ES44AC)
Views:  1132   Comments: 0


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