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Owner: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Model:EMD E9ABuilt As:UP 908 (E9A)
Serial Number:26672Order No:7604
Frame Number:7604-A1Built:8/1961
Notes:Leased to Amtrak 7/71, returned to UP and scrapped
Other locos with this serial:  UP 908(E9A)
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UP 908 with Tr #111 Ready to Chase the Sun
Title:  UP 908 with Tr #111 Ready to Chase the Sun
Description:  UP E9A 908 and two B-units were about to leave Savanna, IL (on the Milwaukee Road) and would immediately cross the Mississippi River this late afternoon with the combined City of Denver and City of Portland. The train would acquire the UP in Omaha. The proud UP kept its passenger engines clean to the end. 908 would work for Amtrak for a while and was returned to the UP unservicable and was scrapped in 1975.
Photo Date:  7/30/1964  Upload Date: 10/6/2007 3:51:58 PM
Location:  Savanna, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 908(E9A)
Views:  2332   Comments: 4
Amtrak Train No. 1
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 1
Description:  Amtrak’s westbound SUNSET was in New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal with a handsome A-B-B-A set of former Union Pacific E-units and nine cars. The locomotives were E9A 908, E9B 958B. E8B 927B and E9A 947. Former UP E-units had come in on the SUNSET for the first time on 15 July 1971, so they were still somewhat of a novelty, and a matched set was rather unusual. Notice that the 908 was displaying 907 in its number boards! Up until 5 July 1965 UP locomotives displayed their train number, and this was done by inserting individual numerals in the number boards; so it looks like someone was having a little fun!
Photo Date:  9/22/1971  Upload Date: 9/15/2020 10:08:03 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JOHN KIRKPATRICK photo
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 908(E9A)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
Amtrak Train No. 1
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 1
Description:  A Checker MARATHON hi-rail station wagon was on track 6 at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, right in front of Amtrak’s westbound SUNSET LIMITED. The train had an A-B-B-A set of former Union Pacific E-units, still in full UP paint.
Photo Date:  9/22/1971  Upload Date: 10/13/2020 8:53:11 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JOHN KIRKPATRICK image
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  UP 908(E9A)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
UP 908
Title:  UP 908
Description:  UP 908, seen here at SP Taylor shops, was leased to Amtrak as AMTK 413-1 but was returned to UP unserviceable and sold to M-K in October 1973.
Photo Date:  3/10/1973  Upload Date: 2/9/2019 9:03:48 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 908(E9A)
Views:  450   Comments: 1


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