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UPRR 2-10-2 #550040 viewsEngineer for Union Pacific, Archie A. Searle in the cab of U.P. 5500

Union Pacific 5500 is a 2-10-2 - UP 5500 was part of a final group of Class TTT-6 15 2-10-2s built by Baldwin and delivered to the LA-SL(Los Angelas-Salt Lake railroad) and given road numbers 5500 through 5514 in 1923.

Between 1917 and 1924, the Union Pacific Railroad purchased 144 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" types, divided into classes TTT-1 through TTT-7. The UPRR did not call them "Santa Fe" types. They instead gave them the "TTT" class name(Two-Ten-Two). American Locomotive Company (ALCO) built 18, Baldwin Locomotive Works built 89 and Lima Locomotive Works built 37. Despite the divided classes, all of the UP 2-10-2s had the same cylinder dimensions, driving wheel diameter and boiler pressure. After 26 years in service, the UP 5500 was 1 of 4 2-10-2's retired in 1949.
This photo is part of Archie A. Searle's family collection.
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Maintenance work on a Union Pacific 2-10-237 viewsArchie A. Searle, Engineer for the Union Pacific, poses next to a 2-10-2 at Lynndyl yard, Utah - 1945signalman
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Union Pacific #31036 viewsArchie A. Searle, Engineer for the Union Pacific, with daughter Connie on the front of U.P. 310(GP-9) at Cedar City, Utah - September 1959signalman
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EMD GP-7 shut-down35 viewsEMD GP-7 engine shut-down at Pueblo Railway Museum - 2008signalman
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BNSF freight34 viewsBNSF freight passes under overpass in Denver - February 2008signalman
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Union Pacific #844434 viewsArchie A. Searle, Engineer for the Union Pacific, standing with daughter Chanel on U.P. 8444 4-8-4 - 1969signalman
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U.P. track maintenance train heads south through Denver33 viewsU.P. track maintenance train heads south through Denver, crossing Kalamath St. and then Santa Fe Dr. - 2008signalman
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Meeting at Mt. Morris, Michigan31 viewsTaken while I was engineer on the Z127, the daily manifest train between Flint and Saginaw, I am holding in the pass, as the power of the Z144, a coal train on our road, heads south for a pick-upgtw5812
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U.P. boom truck crew tests the airhorn31 viewsU.P. boom truck crew lets me hear the airhorn - between Tolland and Rollinsville - 2008signalman
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U.P. coal train slowly stopping on a steep grade30 viewsU.P. coal train slowly stopping on a steep grade in Coal Creek Canyon - 2008signalman
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SBD GE B36-7 #588029 viewsSBD GE B36-7 #5880 photographed at Richmond, Virginia on 7th February 1987 by Doug Boyd, scanned from an original Kodachrome slide now in my personal collectionburgerbern
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Flint Turn Power29 viewsThe power for the Z127, sits in Flint McGrew Yard, in the clear, as the yard job work our Pick-Upgtw5812
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U.P. on ex-CNW main29 viewsHeading into Clinton, Iowa on ex CNW main
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Guadalupe Yard at night29 viewsThe small Guadalupe yard seen here on this warm summer nightACe
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Empty U.P. coal cars bang across the frog29 viewsEmpty U.P. coal cars bang across the frog at Rollinsville, COsignalman
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EMD GP-7 engine start-up29 viewsThis is a sound recording of a GP7 at start-upRI 900
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